Tag: life

• SUNDAY AFTERNOON

  

  A warm fireplace, some mindless doodling, and most importantly, some chocolate. There were other things he could be doing. Around the edges awaited distractions – work emails, house stuff, paperwork – but nothing that urged immediate attention. Today it was enough to just sit and enjoy what he had, listening to the kids playing outside…

  Iain Kelly

  10/05/2023

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• CALM SEAS

  His work done, it was time to drift away on calm seas. The baggage of his long life lifted from his weary shoulders as the gentle tide pulled him towards the blue azure sky, tinged with orange and pink. A good ending, he thought, a good way to bow out. He looked at his fellow…

  Iain Kelly

  26/04/2023

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• MOTHER

  ‘Hey, sis. Who’s strangling the cat?’ ‘I got her one for her birthday. Decorated it like her old one.’ ‘Did she recognise it?’ ‘She recognises less and less. She probably won’t recognise you.’ ‘You remember how she used to play?’ ‘Every night, while we were going to sleep.’ ‘Bach, wasn’t it? Her favourite.’ ‘The Chaconne…

  Iain Kelly

  29/03/2023

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

  He had pulled himself up from the gutter, from the place where the only options was to rise or die. He kicked the addictions, beaten the disease, climbed each painful step through the trash and rubbish and litter of his broken life. Now he had made it back, back to the light, to the world,…

  Iain Kelly

  04/01/2023

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• DUSK

  The evening sun pours in through the west-facing window, painting your silhouette onto the wall. I recognise the familiar pose – the bowed head, chin resting on your hand, eyes turned to the side, pondering, thinking, battling with the words that will eventually pour themselves onto the screen in front of you. They always come…

  Iain Kelly

  09/11/2022

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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