Tag: life

• SEXUAL PREFERENCE

  ‘Do you have a preference?’ ‘About what?’ ‘Sex.’ ‘Huh?’ Arthur turned from the game on the television and looked at her. ‘That got your attention. Christmas dinner, turkey or duck?’ Arthur turned back to the game. ‘Whatever.’ ‘Fine.’ It would be nice if he took an interest, but she didn’t need him to. Her weekly…

  Iain Kelly

  11/12/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, affair, bisexual, couple, creative writing, excitement, experiment, Fiction, Flash Fiction, gay, humor, humour, interest, lesbian, life, literature, loneliness, love, marriage, massage, preference, relationship, Romance, sex, sexual, Short Story, story, television, Writing, writing prompt

• ANNIVERSARY

  

  15th of May every year, Frank and Bill met at the bench. They reminisced about old times. About meeting their sweethearts that day on the rollercoaster at Coney Island. About the lives they’d had together. The good times. The sad times. About growing old and being alone. ‘Ready?’ ‘Of course!’ Then they’d ride the rollercoaster…

  Iain Kelly

  09/12/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  amusement, anniversary, bench, coaster, coney island, coronavirus, covid-19, creative writing, Death, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, friends, friendship, funfair, life, literature, lockdown, love, luna park, pandemic, park, roller, rollercoaster, Short Story, shutdown, steeplechase, story, Writing, writing prompt

• DOUBT

  The End. Sit back and feel that wave of satisfaction. Done it. Seventy-thousand words. A great ending. A strong start. Plenty of twists. Sags a bit in the middle. Needs a bit of work there. That character is a stereotype. That part is unbelievable. Is it really any good? It’s dire. Back to the start.…

  Iain Kelly

  28/11/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, sammiscribbles, Short Story

  advice, author, character, creative writing, dire, doubt, draft, editing, ending, Fiction, Flash Fiction, indie, indie author, life, literature, nanowrimo, non-fiction, novel, plot, rewrite, sammiscribbles, Short Story, start, stereotype, story, writer, Writing, writing process, writing prompt

• PARADOX

  

  Two new hips and knees. A hair transplant. New skin. A bionic liver. A new kidney. My third heart. I went through the list in my head. Immortality came at a cost. There wasn’t much of my original body left, the one I was born with. But looked the same as I did when I…

  Iain Kelly

  20/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, age, brain, catch-22, creative writing, experience, fear, feelings, Fiction, Flash Fiction, heart, immortality, life, literature, medical, memory, mortality, paradox, parts, replace, ship, Short Story, story, surgery, time, transplant, whole, Writing, writing prompt

• A MINOR FAULT

  

  ‘An unrecoverable error has occurred’. That didn’t look good. The blue screen of death appeared in front of her. ‘Do you wish to reboot? Y/N.’ She hovered over the two keys. This was typical. First shift after almost two thousand years of waiting. Letting him do it all, not being trusted, watching him make mistake…

  Iain Kelly

  16/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, aberration, belief, comedy, computer, creative writing, cuppa, dark, error, fault, Fiction, Flash Fiction, God, humor, humour, life, literature, mistake, processing, reboot, religion, reset, Short Story, software, story, system, universe, unrecoverable, Writing, writing prompt