Tag: Flash Fiction

• IRRECONCILABLE

  

  We had our differences. For most couples they would have been irreconcilable, but we always muddled through. It’s all about compromise. Sure, his job kept him busy, away from home a lot. Maybe that helped. We weren’t living under each other’s feet for forty years. Then I found out it wasn’t his job that kept…

  Iain Kelly

  17/02/2021

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

  #fowc, address, adultery, ashes, bigamy, comedy, compromise, creative writing, dark, Death, differences, family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, humor, humour, husband, irreconcilable, kill, literature, marriage, murder, post, postal, remains, Short Story, story, wife, work, 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

• ROAD TO NOWHERE

  

  They couldn’t be it. After following the track through the forest for three days, this couldn’t be the end. The broken track hung in mid-air. The others looked at him. They were tired, hungry and desperate. And angry. It was Barnaby that challenged him. ‘What now?’ He had no answer. They had trusted him, and…

  Iain Kelly

  10/02/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  apocalypse, climate change, courage, creative writing, dystopia, Fiction, Flash Fiction, forest, Friday Fictioneers, global warming, hope, hopeless, Humanity, leader, literature, metaphor, pandemic, planet, race, Short Story, story, survival, track, Writing, writing prompt

• PICKING UP THE PIECES

  She stared at the wreckage. The clean-up task would be huge. Enormous. Gargantuan. Would she be able to do it? Did she have a choice? No one was going to help her. She would have to do it on her own. It was her responsibility, and she had no one else to blame. She stood…

  Iain Kelly

  06/02/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, sammiscribbles, Short Story

  children, clean, comedy, creative writing, daughter, Fiction, Flash Fiction, gargantuan, housework, humor, humour, kids, life, literature, mess, messy, parenting, room, sammiscribbles, Short Story, story, task, tidy, Writing, writing prompt

• PROPHECY

  

  ‘It is a given, Sir. It is only a matter of time.’ ‘Nothing is a given yet.’ ‘The votes are almost all counted. You have it, Sir. You will be appointed the next leader of the country.’ His eyes gleamed and I had to stop myself from giving in to his enthusiasm and optimism. ‘There…

  Iain Kelly

  04/02/2021

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

  #fowc, #writephoto, appointed, celebration, coup, creative writing, crow, democracy, dictator, election, Fiction, Flash Fiction, fraud, given, gunshot, junta, leader, literature, Military, people, prophecy, Short Story, story, threat, votes, will, Writing, writing prompt