Tag: landscape

• FREIGHT

  

  Unfamiliar landscape rolled by: flat, parched and empty. The old carriages groaned and squealed, rusted wheels clanking on worn rails. At least he hadn’t had to pay for the experience. Another jarring jolt made him grip tighter. Destination unknown, the freight train did not stop at any stations. It ploughed on unrelentingly. Behind him, his…

  Iain Kelly

  05/08/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  #amwriting, creative writing, dark, depression, drabble, Fiction, Flash Fiction, freight, Friday Fictioneers, keeping on, landscape, literature, mood, rails, rolling, run, Short Story, sleepers, story, sucicide, tracks, Train, wheels, Writing, writing prompt

• THE BEGINNING OF A REVOLUTION

  

  Mist rolled down the hillside into the base of the valley where the small hamlet lay. Silence ruled as the hanging shroud dampened any sound. Then, cutting through the atmosphere, a clear, sharp repeated noise emerged. ‘Slap, slap, slap’ footsteps against the rock path descending the slope. It was joined by another, louder noise. A…

  Iain Kelly

  30/08/2018

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

  #writephoto, 1745, army, bonnie prince charlie, creative writing, edinburgh, Fiction, Flash Fiction, hamlet, history, jacobite, landscape, literature, mist, mountains, revolution, rural, scotland, Short Story, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, uprising, watcher, Writing, writing prompt