Tag: humor

• JUST BECAUSE I’M PARANOID…

  

  It’s just a tree. Nature at it’s most extraordinary. Why then does it look so menacing? Like an encircling web, or a tangled prison. Does it say more about my own character that I vilify it in this way? Is it symbolic of my own life? Am I trapped? Frustrated? Scared? My amble through the…

  Iain Kelly

  17/03/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  #fowc, comedy, creative writing, drabble, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, frustrated, humor, humour, laugh, light-hearted, literature, mental, mental health, metaphor, mock, paranoid, serious, Short Story, sinister, story, struggle, tree, trees, Writing, writing prompt

• KITSCH

  Can a person be kitsch? He’s sweet, but he wears trouser braces with a garish shirt and hat and brightly coloured cords. I give him a chance, but then he invites me back to his and I see the living room… 1970s mustard-orange decor and chintzy lamps, and I’m out. ‘I’ll be off,’ I say.…

  Iain Kelly

  27/02/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, sammiscribbles, weekend writing prompt

  braces, chintzy, comedy, creative writing, dark, decor, decoration, Fiction, Flash Fiction, house, humor, humour, killer, kitsch, lamp, lamps, literature, murder, serial, Short Story, story, weekend writing prompt, Writing, writing prompt

• FALLOUT SHELTER

  ‘Come with us, Sir. We need to get you to the fallout bunker right away.’ They grab him by the elbows and steer him down a grey corridor, moving fast. ‘The fallout bunker? Has there been a nuclear attack?’ ‘Not that fallout bunker, Sir. The political fallout bunker.’ ‘Why? What have I done now? Not…

  Iain Kelly

  25/02/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, blogger, bunker, comedy, comments, coup, creative writing, fallout, Fiction, Flash Fiction, humor, humour, journalist, literature, nuclear, pandemic, political, politics, shelter, Short Story, Social Media, society, story, Writing, writing prompt

• AFTER THE FIRST DATE

  How long before making the call? The next day – too desperate? Two days – too aloof? A week – too late? Always the same conundrum. Not this time. The following evening. Perfect. He dialled. ‘The number you have dialled has not been recognised.’ Written for the Weekend Writing Prompt, hosted by SammiScribbles. This week’s prompt…

  Iain Kelly

  20/02/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

  call, comedy, creative writing, date, dating, Fiction, first date, Flash Fiction, humor, humour, literature, love, lover, phone call, rejection, Romance, sammiscribbles, seeking, Short Story, spurned, story, weekend writing prompt, Writing, writing prompt

• IRRECONCILABLE

  

  We had our differences. For most couples they would have been irreconcilable, but we always muddled through. It’s all about compromise. Sure, his job kept him busy, away from home a lot. Maybe that helped. We weren’t living under each other’s feet for forty years. Then I found out it wasn’t his job that kept…

  Iain Kelly

  17/02/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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