Tag: energy

• TERRORIST

  

  Blackness enveloped the city. The power curfew began at midnight. The grid was shutdown. Homes were silent. Streetlights dark. A flicker of rare candlelight betrayed the restaurant or club that refused to close. An occasional set of car headlights crept passed, driven by those lucky enough to still have access to the electricity needed to…

  Iain Kelly

  19/09/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  bomb, creative writing, dystopia, energy, factory, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, future, Humanity, literature, protector, robot, sci-fi, science fiction, Short Story, story, terror, terrorist, thriller, war, weapons, Writing, writing prompt

• POWER CUT

  

  Nobody knows if the power will be restored.  It went off with a small click and that was it. No countdown, no explosion, no event. We’d all been warned often enough that oil and gas were running out, that we weren’t investing enough in renewable energy. Now only essential services and the rich have power. There was…

  Iain Kelly

  12/10/2016

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  atonement, creative writing, drama, electricity, energy, energy crisis, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, future, literature, oil lamps, power cut, renewables, science fact, science fiction, Short Story, story, Writing, yom kippur