Tag: Fiction
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THE PHILOSOPHICAL DIVIDE
One side of the building faced out onto the street. From the window, she watched the world pass her by. Her view was constantly changing – different people, cars, buildings, all came and went over the decades. It was enough for her to watch and admire. She sat, content. The other side of the building…
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THE ROMANTIC
He scrawled the heart on their bench, the tears streaming down his face matching the grey sleet that slashed across the sky. She would know, she would see what she had done to him. This was where they had met, on this bench. This was where she had told him it was over, that she…
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HE NEVER LEFT
Heading downtown, with a one way ticket out of here. Nothing left for me in this one-horse town. It’s time to go and find my fortune elsewhere. This is my destiny. ‘Yo, Mikey!’ Who’s that at the window? Julie? Man, she is hot, even in tracksuit bottoms and wet hair. ‘Hey, Julie.’ ‘Where you headin’?’…
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IN A SPIN
He tried to contain his temper as he repeated the same argument into the telephone. ‘I stood in the store with your sales representative and pointed out the exact model I wanted.’ ‘And that’s the model you have,’ the manager explained. ‘Yes, but in white, not pink. Pink doesn’t match the rest of my kitchen.…
Iain Kelly 