Tag: fever

• THE SHOW MUST GO ON

  

  The lights go up, the cast take their bow. Silence greets them from the empty auditorium. They keep going because there is nothing else to be done. Night after night, show after show, repeat and repeat. Bereft of enthusiasm they go through the motions, a ghost-like shadow of their former ardour. Delirium set in weeks…

  Iain Kelly

  26/02/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  boredom, coronavirus, cough, covid-19, creative writing, drabble, empty, fever, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, ghostly, isolation, literature, lockdown, musical, panic, Plague, quarantine, repeat, routine, Short Story, show, story, theatre, Writing, writing prompt

• LEFT BEHIND

  

  Left, left, left, right, left. Back straight, arms swinging at the shoulder, crisp, clean steps. He would drum it into these natives if it killed him. No good roads, that was the problem. Didn’t live in proper houses. Didn’t wear any clothes, half of them. The whole place needed civilising.  Her Majesty’s army would soon…

  Iain Kelly

  15/02/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

  army, british, colonial, creative writing, deserter, eccentric, fever, Fiction, Flash Fiction, independence, insane, islands, literature, marching, Military, port vila, rule, Short Story, story, tropics, vanuatu, What Pegman Saw, Writing, writing prompt