Tag: manners

• THE DAILY POST: AWKWARD

  Should he tell her? How to tell her? It might more harm than help. On the other hand, if he leaves it unsaid and someone else mentions it… What a fix. There can be no winner in this situation. He can’t let it go on like this. Honesty is the best policy. ‘Darling, I’m not…

  Iain Kelly

  21/05/2018

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

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• MORNING TEA

  

  Lady Devonshire was not to be dissuaded, ‘I hear he will be worth a fortune when he inherits.’ ‘Mama, don’t be so vulgar,’ Bethany admonished. Lady Worthington leaned forward and patted Bethany’s knee. ‘There are worse things than to marry for money, such as being a spinster with none.’ Bethany sat in brooding silence. She…

  Iain Kelly

  28/03/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  affair, comedy of manners, creative writing, english, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gardener, gentry, gossip, humor, humour, inherit, literature, manners, marriage, morning tea, passion, scandal, sex, Short Story, story, Writing, writing prompt