Tag: exploration

• L IS FOR LISBON, PORTUGAL

  A STORY OF LONGING FOR LISBON Francisco watched with horror as the landing boats moved away from shore without them. Now they were stranded. This was how it was to end for the Great Dom Francisco? After all that he had been through in the name of Portugal, he was to be struck down by…

  Iain Kelly

  13/04/2018

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

  a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, africa, AtoZchallenge, conquering, creative writing, Death, east india, europe, european union, expedition, exploration, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Francisco de Almeida, history, Khoikhoi, king john II, lisbon, literature, longing, portugal, Short Story, south africa, story, trade, Writing, writing prompt

• TROUBLE AHEAD

  

  Gonzalo threw his few belongings, the sharpened rocks and wooden tools he had made with his own hands, into the cave entrance and hurried inside the safety of his hidden cavern. Lying on the floor he peered back out through the opening. With his telescope, cobbled together with the glass frontispiece of his watch,  a…

  Iain Kelly

  15/03/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

  #writephoto, ahead, castaway, circumnavigate, creative writing, expedition, exploration, ferdinand magellan, Fiction, Flash Fiction, globe, gonazlo, hermit, island, literature, navy, peace, portugal, sail, Short Story, solitude, spain, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, trouble, Writing, writing prompt