Tag: gossip

• BOX OFFICE

  

  She was box office. She was advertising revenue, hits online, gossip column gold. The more turbulent her private life, the more she was worth. Sex scandal followed drug rehab, relationship turmoil ran concurrent to family fall-outs. All of it was box office. Imagine then what they will make of this. Conspiracy theories will abound. The…

  Iain Kelly

  26/06/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  advertising, blood, box office, celebrity, clicks, creative writing, drabble, drugs, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, friend, gossip, hits, killer, Knife, literature, modern, money, murder, rehab, relationship, revenue, scandal, sex, Short Story, story, world, Writing, writing prompt

• MORNING TEA

  

  Lady Devonshire was not to be dissuaded, ‘I hear he will be worth a fortune when he inherits.’ ‘Mama, don’t be so vulgar,’ Bethany admonished. Lady Worthington leaned forward and patted Bethany’s knee. ‘There are worse things than to marry for money, such as being a spinster with none.’ Bethany sat in brooding silence. She…

  Iain Kelly

  28/03/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  affair, comedy of manners, creative writing, english, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gardener, gentry, gossip, humor, humour, inherit, literature, manners, marriage, morning tea, passion, scandal, sex, Short Story, story, Writing, writing prompt