Tag: drum

• A BETTER WORLD

  

  The man on the door had given us a look, a look that said ‘are you crazy?’. He was over six-foot, wider than the door he blocked with dark black skin taught over fearsome muscles. Vero sweet-talked him round. ‘He’s with me, ain’t no bad thing going to happen, you’ll see.’ She batted her eyelids,…

  Iain Kelly

  07/12/2017

  creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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• D IS FOR DRUM

  

  That evening Sand sat in his living room. The house still felt strange and empty. The lack of noise coming from the kitchen. The television hummed in the background, now uncommented on. The sense of something missing felt tangible. The silence drummed into his brain. There was a hole, a shape, a gap that had…

  Iain Kelly

  05/04/2017

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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