Tag: dusk

• DUSK

  The evening sun pours in through the west-facing window, painting your silhouette onto the wall. I recognise the familiar pose – the bowed head, chin resting on your hand, eyes turned to the side, pondering, thinking, battling with the words that will eventually pour themselves onto the screen in front of you. They always come…

  Iain Kelly

  09/11/2022

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• THE GRAVEDIGGER

  

  This was the tree alright, the dead one with no leaves. Streetlight nearby, no need for the torch I had brought. A night of hard labour ahead, best get to it. Sweat and dirt, clanging metal on rocky, hard ground. Takes longer than you think to dig a deep grave. At three in the morning…

  Iain Kelly

  03/04/2019

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• DUSK AT THE BORDER

  

  Dusk, the start of the night shift that no one wants to do. Bálint watches the sun dip down across the river, it’s reflection glinting off the water. A week of this to come before he returns to the lazy day shift, relaxing in the warmth of the summer days. In most places, the darkness…

  Iain Kelly

  22/02/2018

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

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