Tag: love
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ROOTS
‘Such beautiful hair. No idea where you get it from.’ Her father smiled down at her, running his fingers through her light natural curls. She sat on his knee looking up at his proud smile and bald head. What a mess she thought, staring in the mirror. Dressed in black, her hair a tangled mess…
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IN THE VEILED LIGHT
In the veiled light he looks magnificent. He stands out from the gathered well-off, ignoring the art around them. She wills him to look her way. For too long she has desired from afar. For too long he has ignored her. Tonight he will not escape her web. She knows his fiancée is out of…
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CLEARING MIST
The mist hung over the fields, obscuring the rising sun which vainly tried to burn the haze away. As the orb rose in the sky, the darkness crept back, revealing the white frosted land. Johnny walked along the slick pavement, the overnight ice frozen to the surface making it treacherous underfoot. The annual work Christmas…
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MOLLY
She stood at the window looking out at the harbour. They told her to give up. They told her there was no hope. Years had gone by. They’d lost her Molly once before when she wandered off into the woods and didn’t return. She was found the next day in her bivouac of branches and…
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LOVE
‘Fifty-nine dead. Five hundred injured.’ Hannah says it more to herself than anyone else. ‘Terrorists again?’ the young girl playing on the floor asks her. ‘Just a man with a gun.’ ‘It’s never going to stop, is it, Mum?’ ‘It hasn’t stopped since time began. All this violence toward each other,’ she shakes her head.…
Iain Kelly 