Tag: gilt-edged

• GILT-EDGED

  

  Glass roses, gilt-edged with gold, smashed and splintered. He sits among them, the broken shards of his life. She has gone now, the fire and the fury. She will return, he knows. She will do it again. Why does he put up with it? That abstract notion of love? Loyalty? Or shame? Shame that a…

  Iain Kelly

  20/02/2019

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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