Tag: domestic abuse

• GILT-EDGED

  

  Glass roses, gilt-edged with gold, smashed and splintered. He sits among them, the broken shards of his life. She has gone now, the fire and the fury. She will return, he knows. She will do it again. Why does he put up with it? That abstract notion of love? Loyalty? Or shame? Shame that a…

  Iain Kelly

  20/02/2019

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  Abuse, creative writing, domestic abuse, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gilt-edged, husband, life, literature, Man, marriage, mental, relationship, roses, Short Story, story, sucicide, suicide, torture, violence, vulnerable, wife, Woman, Writing, writing prompt

• JUSTIFIABLE

  

  Had she done the right thing? She had no idea. Others would judge her. She only knew she had done what she thought best. The water was icy cold on her feet. It reached the bottom of her dress, weighing the light linen down. The light gold sand swirled around her ankles. The red on…

  Iain Kelly

  20/11/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  blood, creative writing, domestic abuse, drama, drowing, family, Fiction, filicide, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, homicide, imagery, justifiable, literature, mental illness, murder, salt, sand, sea, self defence, Short Story, story, suicide, sun, sunrise, thriller, violence, water, waves, Writing, writing prompt