Tag: hate

• OPPOSING FACTIONS

  

  One heart, two sides.Opposing factions: love and hate.He could feel both, after the outbursts and the abuse.As she slept it off.Love and hate, sympathy and anger.It couldn’t go on.But how did it end? Written for the Weekend Writing Prompt, hosted by SammiScribbles. This week’s prompt was: Faction. Click on the link to read more stories by […]

  Iain Kelly

  23/01/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

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• THE TROUBLE WITH CHOICES

  

  Life’s all about choices. Take diet: instead of the full fat burger, choose the veggie burger. Instead of wine, water. Instead of chocolate, carrot and dip. Everything in moderation. Take exercise: instead of sitting in front of the television, choose getting out for a walk or a run. Take politics: instead of supporting the rich […]

  Iain Kelly

  14/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• TORRENT OF ABUSE

  

  The insults poured from their mouths like dark water cascading in a torrent, tumbling on top of him and those he loved. The more they beat him down, the more determined he was to stand up. In the end, like the rocks worn down by years of abuse from a waterfall, he could take the […]

  Iain Kelly

  05/03/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• ROOTS

  

  Ma roots is in Barbados, so ma Mama tells me all d’time. ‘Yo was born there, Ah was born there, yo grandaddy was born there. Dat’s where yo is from.’ Funny ting is, Ah feel no connection to dat far off place at all. We left there when Ah wasn’t even one year old, part […]

  Iain Kelly

  09/05/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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• IMAGINE

  

  ‘Imagine all the people, sharing all the world,’ sang John Lennon. And they shot him. ‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,’ ministered the Reverend Martin Luther […]

  Iain Kelly

  17/01/2019

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

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