Tag: loss

• MUD PIE MOJO

  

  ‘Man, all I want is to eat a Mud Pie Mojo at the Cold Stone Creamery on North Marion Street. I’d give my other damn leg just to get back there.’ ‘You’ll get there. Give it time.’ ‘Easy for you to say.’ ‘Never said it would be easy.’ Rachel felt the scar tissue and the…

  Iain Kelly

  04/07/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  amputation, chicago, cold stone creamery, creative writing, date, doctor, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, hospital, ice cream, limb, literature, loss, love, massage, mental, physical, PTSD, rehab, rehabilitation, scars, Short Story, soldier, story, trauma, veteran, war, Writing, writing prompt

• BROTHERS

  

  Every Sunday through that summer at eleven they had sat on the same bench, Patrice and his younger brother Henri, waiting while their parents attended church. At five past eleven the fountain would spring into life as the gardener, Hervé, turned it on. Father gave them a toy boat to sail around the pond. On the warmest…

  Iain Kelly

  11/06/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

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• THE TURRETS OF HOME

  

  Trudging through the cold night, the last remnants of the winter snow on the ground, she finally saw the lights glowing from the windows ahead. Above her the familiar turrets of the castle loomed. Four years since she had been taken by the crusaders. How she had changed since then, no longer the innocent thirteen…

  Iain Kelly

  24/05/2018

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

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• THE DAILY POST: DISAPPEAR

  ‘Sammy,’ he shouted now, more desperate. Other parents stared, two or three came over to him, looking concerned, willing to help. He tried to explain to them, his words were shrill and panicked, ‘He was right here, right here, at the slide, I had his hand, and then I turned for a second and he…

  Iain Kelly

  22/05/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, The Daily Post

  abduction, child, creative writing, daily post, disappear, Fiction, Flash Fiction, grief, life, literature, loss, mental illness, missing, nightmare, panic, parent, park, prompt, PTSD, Short Story, spring, story, stress, The Daily Post, Writing, writing prompt

• LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP

  

  ‘Harold, are you listening?’ ‘Hmm, oh, sorry. I drifted off there.’ ‘Sandra was just saying that you seem distant sometimes.’ ‘Distant? No, not at all. I wouldn’t say that.’ He  pulled himself up straight on the uncomfortable chair and gave Sandra an encouraging smile. It was met with an icy cold stare. He tried to…

  Iain Kelly

  18/01/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

  betrayal, breakdown, counselling, creative writing, daydreaming, distant, family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, freedom, life, literature, long distance relationship, loss, love, marriage, midlife crisis, relationship, Short Story, story, therapist, therapy, Thursday Photo Prompt, Writing, writing prompt