Tag: grave

• LANDSLIDE

  

  The bright red blinking lights spread across the road, breaking the pitch black of the night. I stopped and rolled down the window, feeling the unpleasant cold rain hitting my face. A police officer in a rain smock leaned over. ‘Road’s closed. Landslide down the mountainside.’ ‘The Old Military road too?’ This was the usual […]

  Iain Kelly

  10/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, car, creative writing, crime, criminal, Death, detour, Fiction, Flash Fiction, grave, hitchhiker, landslide, lift, literature, mountain, murder, noir, predator, remote, rescue, serial killer, sexual, Short Story, shovel, story, violent, Writing, writing prompt

• THE GRAVEDIGGER

  

  This was the tree alright, the dead one with no leaves. Streetlight nearby, no need for the torch I had brought. A night of hard labour ahead, best get to it. Sweat and dirt, clanging metal on rocky, hard ground. Takes longer than you think to dig a deep grave. At three in the morning […]

  Iain Kelly

  03/04/2019

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• THE THAW

  

  After the suicide season over Christmas, when the lack of daylight drove depression rates soaring, the thawing of the winter snow was always the next busiest time of year. Anders Sand had already cleared two cases in the past week, bodies unearthed from the retreating white blanket: one a climber who had been missing for […]

  Iain Kelly

  21/12/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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• THE GRAVEYARD AT THE END OF MY STREET

  

  There’s a graveyard at the end of my street. I’ve walked round it since I could walk. I’ve read the tombstones since I could read. Over the years I have written the life stories of the people buried there. There’s one grave that memorialises three generations of one family. The father, son and grandson. They all […]

  Iain Kelly

  26/04/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  creative writing, Death, dream, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, ghosts, grave, graveyard, horror, imagination, literature, loss, Short Story, sorrow, story, tombstone, Writing, writing prompt