Tag: disorder

• ALL GONE

  

  They haven’t gone, the Christmas Angels.They’re hiding from me.Waiting. In the shadows.Ready to step out into the twinkling lights.Reflecting in the dirty puddles.Shimmering and blurred.Walking along the empty streets.The closed shops, the dead cafés.An open door.Please sir, can you help me?An inviting arm around my shoulder.The warmth of the hallway.Shut out the cold Eve.His smiling…

  Iain Kelly

  23/12/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• AESTHETICALLY PLEASING

  

  How they had mocked him at Right-Angle Brick Co.: What’s wrong with an old-fashioned rectangle? A deformed brick gave him the inspiration, he had to make order out of its irregularity. And here it was, laid out across the town square, each polygon snugly slotting together (debate still raged about whether they qualified as hexadecagons).…

  Iain Kelly

  02/12/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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