Tag: grief

• FOR RICHER, FOR POORER, FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE

  Time to do it, enough putting it off, you’ve been gone six months now. As difficult as it is, there’s something therapeutic about clearing out your belongings. Especially in the garage. All the little knick-knacks you’ve kept over the years, never to be used. Some I can sort into boxes, some I can give to […]

  Iain Kelly

  21/09/2022

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  black humor, clearout, comedy, creative writing, dark, Death, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, grief, humour, Knife, literature, marriage, murder, serial killer, Short Story, story, Writing, writing prompt

• DAYBREAK

  

  The sun rose. The world went on. As if nothing had happened. As if everything was as it should have been. He found her in the nursery. Staring out the window. The sky was a fiery red. It tinged her tears. She gripped the unused blanket. This is a response to the #writephoto Prompt: Daybreak […]

  Iain Kelly

  30/01/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, birth, child, cot, creative writing, daybreak, Death, Fiction, Flash Fiction, grief, life, literature, loss, Man, miscarriage, nursery, parents, Short Story, sky, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, Woman, world, Writing, writing prompt

• DIGGER!

  

  ‘Digger!’ he shouted from the back seat. Where did it come from, this fascination with any construction or agricultural machine? Tractors, cement mixers, dumper trucks, combine harvesters, even bin lorries – all of them elicited a squeal of joy upon sight. And so we all joined in with my son’s enthusiasm. ‘So it is, that’s […]

  Iain Kelly

  12/11/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  coping, creative writing, Death, depression, digger, family, father, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, funeral, grief, infant, life, literature, loss, machine, sentimental, Short Story, son, story, tractor, vehicles, Writing, writing prompt

• BROTHERS

  

  Every Sunday through that summer at eleven they had sat on the same bench, Patrice and his younger brother Henri, waiting while their parents attended church. At five past eleven the fountain would spring into life as the gardener, Hervé, turned it on. Father gave them a toy boat to sail around the pond. On the warmest […]

  Iain Kelly

  11/06/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  bench, Boat, brothers, church, creative writing, Death, family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, fondness, fountain, France, friendship, funeral, grief, life, literature, loss, love, memory, park, play, pond, sentimental, Short Story, siblings, story, summer, Writing, writing prompt

• THE DAILY POST: DISAPPEAR

  ‘Sammy,’ he shouted now, more desperate. Other parents stared, two or three came over to him, looking concerned, willing to help. He tried to explain to them, his words were shrill and panicked, ‘He was right here, right here, at the slide, I had his hand, and then I turned for a second and he […]

  Iain Kelly

  22/05/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, The Daily Post

  abduction, child, creative writing, daily post, disappear, Fiction, Flash Fiction, grief, life, literature, loss, mental illness, missing, nightmare, panic, parent, park, prompt, PTSD, Short Story, spring, story, stress, The Daily Post, Writing, writing prompt