Tag: fascism

• STOP THE BOATS

  The Home Secretary sat down to her meal in the grand hotel ballroom. The day had gone well. ‘STOP THE BOATS’: the perfect slogan to win back their core voters. Some of those irritating lawyers and activists and soft left-y socialists had bleated on about the European Convention of Human Rights, and breaking international law,…

  Iain Kelly

  08/03/2023

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE

  

  She could hear her mother’s voice from the grave, ‘Is it worth it?’ The world tilts out of kilter. Sun sears her eyeballs. Cool tarmac against her face. Shards of broken green glass. A dent in a red metal bin. Memories of the night before. Anger and hatred. Standing firm. Too slow to run. Her…

  Iain Kelly

  30/09/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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