Tag: lookout

• SUMMITS NOT RIGHT

  

  ‘Summits not right,’ he muttered in his mysterious way. I misunderstood his local dialect. ‘Something’s not right?’ ‘Yes,’ he pointed up to the top of the hill, where I could just make out the wall of a lookout tower. ‘There’s something wrong at the summit.’ ‘What’s wrong?’ I could see no sign of anything untoward.…

  Iain Kelly

  19/07/2018

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

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• PRELUDE TO BATTLE

  

  Titus Valerius looked out over the grey water of the Adriatic Sea. The view was as bleak as his prospects. It had been a year since he had seen Rome and his beloved Domitilla. When he had joined the army he had dreamed of travelling the world, amassing victories and returning home triumphant. With the…

  Iain Kelly

  23/11/2017

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

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