Tag: fear

• OPEN DOOR

  

  It always followed the same pattern. Middle of the night. Panicked phone call. Incoherent story. She always ended up agreeing to go over. This is different. Door wide open. Probably just a neighbour didn’t close it right. Out of habit she checks the mailbox. Empty. Up the stairs, lit by flickering halogen. Along the corridor. […]

  Iain Kelly

  03/03/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  #fowc, abduction, agent, aid, bed, call, creative writing, door, drama, dread, empty, fear, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flat, Friday Fictioneers, help, literature, mailbox, missing, nightmare, panic, paranoia, pattern, phone, routine, Short Story, story, taken, thriller, Writing, writing prompt

• DEEPER MEANING

  

  ‘I’m worried for your welfare!’ she shouted up to him, trying to hide her genuine fear. ‘I’ll be fine.’ He had come this far, he wasn’t going to turn back now and chicken out in front of everyone. A bet was a bet. He stood in just his pants and looked down at the black […]

  Iain Kelly

  11/02/2021

  #fowc, #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, #writephoto, air, bet, brave, breath, creative writing, deeper, dive, fear, Fiction, Flash Fiction, jump, literature, love, peer, pool, pressure, relationship, rescue, rock, Short Story, story, swim, water, welfare, Writing, writing prompt

• PARADOX

  

  Two new hips and knees. A hair transplant. New skin. A bionic liver. A new kidney. My third heart. I went through the list in my head. Immortality came at a cost. There wasn’t much of my original body left, the one I was born with. But looked the same as I did when I […]

  Iain Kelly

  20/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, age, brain, catch-22, creative writing, experience, fear, feelings, Fiction, Flash Fiction, heart, immortality, life, literature, medical, memory, mortality, paradox, parts, replace, ship, Short Story, story, surgery, time, transplant, whole, Writing, writing prompt

• LONELINESS

  

  The wind howled round the lighthouse. Jackson looked up at the bright beam as it circled round, shielding his eyes from the driving rain. Satisfied that all was in order he went back inside. He took off his soaked oilskin jacket and walked up the staircase to his bed. The relief wouldn’t be able to […]

  Iain Kelly

  02/12/2018

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

  creative writing, Death, driven, fear, Fiction, Flash Fiction, forsaken, isolation, lighthouse, literature, loneliness, lonely, madness, murder, Short Story, story, Sunday Photo Fiction, Writing, writing prompt

• SCOPOPHOBIA

  

  She’d asked them to brick up the opening but the doctor said it was against building regulations. Instead she got planters and grew grass in them. After a few weeks it was tall enough to fill half the void. She tended to it in the hope that it would fill the opening completely. They tried […]

  Iain Kelly

  08/08/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  alone, asylum, care, creative writing, fear, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, grass, hospital, illness, irrational, isolation, literature, mental, patients, phobia, scopophobia, shame, Short Story, story, watched, watching, Writing, writing prompt