Tag: human

• THE NEW LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER

  

  The light glowed out of the fog as it turned. He knocked the door. An old man answered. ‘I was expecting Donnie.’ ‘He quit.’ He led him inside. ‘You need a tour?’ ‘I’ll figure it out.’ ‘Fair enough. See you in a month.’ The solitude enveloped him. Bliss. Lockdown had shown him the path to…

  Iain Kelly

  08/05/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

  alone, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, happiness, human, interaction, lighthouse, literature, lockdown, mystery, peace, people, Short Story, solitude, solitudinarian, Space, story, stranger, weekend writing prompt, Writing, writing prompt

• A NEW FREEDOM

  

  Invigorating was one way to describe it. Freedom. A weight lifted. A new start. The rest of his life starting now. He put the sledgehammer down. All that remained of his laptop, PC, tablet and smartphone was a mangled, twisted pile of metal and plastic. His past life, his identity – trashed. He turned his…

  Iain Kelly

  18/02/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, computer, contact, creative writing, fict, Flash Fiction, freedom, human, invigorating, laptop, letting go, life, literature, machine, modern, outside, pressure, short, smartphone, story, stress, tablet, trash, Writing, writing prompt

• THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS

  

  A body of work. That’s all I have at the end. All of it in the past. What will the future hold? I gave everything, at the expense of family and friends and love and finally, life. All to achieve the goal. The goal set by my leader. Did I do it for my country?…

  Iain Kelly

  07/12/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• SURVIVAL

  

  I tried not to vomit as I peeled the fetid sock away from my foot. It came off in tattered patches, stuck to the putrid flesh underneath. The pain was excruciating. I had to look. It wasn’t my foot any longer. I didn’t recognise it. It was just a lump of red-purple meat. There were…

  Iain Kelly

  30/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• IT HAPPENS TO US ALL

  

  He stood like a statue, frozen on the spot. He went back over all the decisions that had led him to this moment, raking through his memory for the answer that would not reveal itself through the fog. He reached out but could not grasp the key information he had forgotten. He tried to not…

  Iain Kelly

  27/02/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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