Tag: life

• SOLUS

  The vista looks grim this morning. A grey, brooding doldrum. Without you, there is no sun-kissed upland. No blissful smile. I turn away. The chore of life weighs heavy. Written for the Weekend Writing Prompt, hosted by SammiScribbles. This week’s prompt was: Vista. Click on the link to read more stories by other writers. For those who…

  Iain Kelly

  13/03/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

  alone, bliss, creative writing, depression, doldrum, feelings, Fiction, Flash Fiction, heart, heavy, life, literature, loss, love, Nature, Romance, sammiscribbles, Short Story, solus, story, view, vista, 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

• PICKING UP THE PIECES

  She stared at the wreckage. The clean-up task would be huge. Enormous. Gargantuan. Would she be able to do it? Did she have a choice? No one was going to help her. She would have to do it on her own. It was her responsibility, and she had no one else to blame. She stood…

  Iain Kelly

  06/02/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, sammiscribbles, Short Story

  children, clean, comedy, creative writing, daughter, Fiction, Flash Fiction, gargantuan, housework, humor, humour, kids, life, literature, mess, messy, parenting, room, sammiscribbles, Short Story, story, task, tidy, Writing, writing prompt

• SELF DISCOVERY

  ‘You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.’ ‘So that’s a no then?’ ‘You’re damn right that’s a no.’ I had only asked for a…

  Iain Kelly

  26/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, ant, chuck palahniuk, creative writing, cubicle, depressing, despair, Fiction, fight club, Flash Fiction, funeral, image, leave, life, literature, office, realisation, self, Short Story, snowflake, story, trapped, uniform, unique, worker, Writing, writing prompt

• INTIMATE

  Could you be this intimate with anyone else? Anyone apart from your lifelong best friend? She had been with plenty of men, in relationships and one night stands. She had never felt anything like this. She looked over at her. She was staring back at her. They were thinking the same thing. It felt right.…

  Iain Kelly

  07/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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