Tag: evacuation

• NIGHTSTALKERS

  

  ‘Completely self-sufficient,’ he boasted. ‘The wind turns the mill and powers the dynamo at the back to produce electricity.’ ‘And the garden provides food?’ ‘Absolutely.’ ‘Won’t they come and steal from your garden at night?’ ‘That’s what I use the walkway for,’ he pointed up at the platform that circled the windmill halfway up. ‘Stand…

  Iain Kelly

  26/02/2018

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

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• HOLD ON TO THE LIGHT

  

  He should’ve gotten on the train. He could’ve been in the countryside with his sister. But he didn’t want to leave Mother in the city. Not with the air raids and bombs falling. Then he had gotten lost trying to get home from the station. The old lady found him and took him to her…

  Iain Kelly

  29/01/2018

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

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• LEST WE FORGET

  Through the sea haze she saw the final stream of small boats appear. From this distance she could make out the decks crammed with soldiers. For nine days the small boats had shuttled across the channel to Dunkirk. Over three hundred thousand men had been saved and returned to Dover. As the boats drew closer, the…

  Iain Kelly

  13/11/2016

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Sunday Photo Fiction

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