Tag: drugs

• LOCAL HERO

  

  ‘Always was a wayward child, that one.’ ‘This is a little something more than wayward.’ ‘I remember him growing up around here. Always in trouble, stealing sweets, ringing doorbells.’ ‘I’m not sure that childhood pranks would lead to this.’ ‘You gotta stop ’em when their young. Learn ’em early to respect people.’ ‘I wonder how […]

  Iain Kelly

  01/05/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

  #metoo, assault, boy, bullying, celebrity, creative writing, drugs, fallen, fame, famous, Fiction, Flash Fiction, generation, guilty, hero, idol, literature, local, newspaper, scandal, sexual, Short Story, story, tabloid, violence, weekend writing prompt, Writing, writing prompt

• IN THE LAND OF THE GIANT GERBILS

  

  Floating along on a bed of epicurean marshmallows, Malcolm IV, king of the giant gerbils, nibbled on a lovely stilton and ordered the destruction of Paris by his army of flying pigs armed with lances and flame throwers. In the Kingdom of the Glowing Eggs, the latest crop of chimeras – half voluptuous maidens, half […]

  Iain Kelly

  21/04/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  #fowc, acid, bad, cheese, comedy, creative writing, drabble, dreams, drugs, eggs, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gerbils, hallucination, humor, humour, imagery, immutable, limb, literature, lsd, madness, paris, pigs, reality, Short Story, story, surreal, trip, trippy, Writing, writing prompt

• MR. VORACIOUS

  

  He decided: from now on, whatever it was, he was going to do it voraciously. That’s what they said about all these successful people: Musk and Jobs and Bezos, they were obsessives and workaholics. Work hard, play hard. That was how to get ahead. So he would work longer hours and stop taking breaks and […]

  Iain Kelly

  04/12/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, addiction, binge, character, comedy, creative writing, drinking, driven, drugs, eating, entrepreneur, Fiction, Flash Fiction, gambling, humor, humour, lifestyle, literature, running, sex, shopping, Short Story, sketch, sleep, story, voracious, work, Writing, writing prompt

• DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA

  

  ‘To watch him play football was to watch a great artist at work. Once he had the ball at his feet, it was impossible to retrieve it without fouling him.’ ‘Come on. He rode that gravy train like all these other overpaid footballers.’ ‘You’re too young to understand. Before him there was no gravy train. […]

  Iain Kelly

  26/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, 2020, argentina, armando, chaos, creative writing, Death, diego, diego maradona, drugs, Fiction, Flash Fiction, football, genius, God, literature, maradona, Short Story, skill, story, superstar, the hand of god, tragedy, world cup, Writing, writing prompt

• BOOK REVIEW: LAYLA’S SONG by PAUL McCRACKEN

  

  The Blurb: Michael is a family man, working long hours to provide for his family. Things take a dark turn when he and his family are subject to a series of threatening and intimidating phone calls, claiming Michael is not who he says he is. One night, when Michael is out, his home is attacked […]

  Iain Kelly

  18/07/2020

  book review, Books, creative writing, Literature, novel, Review, Writing

  #amreading, #amwriting, action, book, book review, creative writing, crime, drugs, ireland, kidnap, layla’s song, literature, novel, paul mccracken, Publishing, ransom, reading, revenge, Review, self-publishing, thriller, violence, Writing