Tag: Man

• OPPOSING FACTIONS

  

  One heart, two sides.Opposing factions: love and hate.He could feel both, after the outbursts and the abuse.As she slept it off.Love and hate, sympathy and anger.It couldn’t go on.But how did it end? Written for the Weekend Writing Prompt, hosted by SammiScribbles. This week’s prompt was: Faction. Click on the link to read more stories by […]

  Iain Kelly

  23/01/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

  Abuse, alcoholism, creative writing, domestic, faction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, hate, heart, leave, literature, love, Man, marriage, opposing, relationship, Short Story, story, violence, weekend writing prompt, Woman, Writing, writing prompt

• THE PAINTED LADY

  

  He was drunk. He had to admit it. Not slightly inebriated or a bit tipsy, but flat out drunk. There would be trouble when he got home. In his mind he rehearsed the route he would take from the front door to the bedroom – probably via the bathroom – and the movements he would […]

  Iain Kelly

  21/05/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, Alcohol, creative writing, dream, drunk, fall, fantasy, Fiction, Flash Fiction, ghost, lady, literature, Man, naked, night, nightmare, painted, pond, seduction, Short Story, story, temptation, Thursday Photo Prompt, water, Woman, Writing, writing prompt

• DAYBREAK

  

  The sun rose. The world went on. As if nothing had happened. As if everything was as it should have been. He found her in the nursery. Staring out the window. The sky was a fiery red. It tinged her tears. She gripped the unused blanket. This is a response to the #writephoto Prompt: Daybreak […]

  Iain Kelly

  30/01/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, birth, child, cot, creative writing, daybreak, Death, Fiction, Flash Fiction, grief, life, literature, loss, Man, miscarriage, nursery, parents, Short Story, sky, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, Woman, world, Writing, writing prompt

• ROLE REVERSAL

  

  Ironing done, dinner cooking. Time to put the kettle on and rest for ten minutes before she got home. It was hard work keeping his house in order, not that the women who ran the world understood. Just because he didn’t go out to work, didn’t mean he wasn’t working. Just as he sat down […]

  Iain Kelly

  12/06/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  comedy, creative writing, domestic, drabble, dream, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, full time, future, house, humor, humour, keeping, life, lifestyle, literature, Man, nightmare, reversal, role, Short Story, story, Woman, work, Writing, writing prompt, wry

• GILT-EDGED

  

  Glass roses, gilt-edged with gold, smashed and splintered. He sits among them, the broken shards of his life. She has gone now, the fire and the fury. She will return, he knows. She will do it again. Why does he put up with it? That abstract notion of love? Loyalty? Or shame? Shame that a […]

  Iain Kelly

  20/02/2019

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  Abuse, creative writing, domestic abuse, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gilt-edged, husband, life, literature, Man, marriage, mental, relationship, roses, Short Story, story, sucicide, suicide, torture, violence, vulnerable, wife, Woman, Writing, writing prompt