Tag: maradona

• DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA

  

  ‘To watch him play football was to watch a great artist at work. Once he had the ball at his feet, it was impossible to retrieve it without fouling him.’ ‘Come on. He rode that gravy train like all these other overpaid footballers.’ ‘You’re too young to understand. Before him there was no gravy train.…

  Iain Kelly

  26/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, 2020, argentina, armando, chaos, creative writing, Death, diego, diego maradona, drugs, Fiction, Flash Fiction, football, genius, God, literature, maradona, Short Story, skill, story, superstar, the hand of god, tragedy, world cup, Writing, writing prompt

• THE HAND OF GOD

  

  Why am I getting so upset? I don’t care about a little Argentinian who was good at kicking a ball about some grass. Why should I care that the signed shirt has to go? But here I am, tearing up at a blank space on the wall. The paint on the wall has faded to…

  Iain Kelly

  15/07/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Sunday Photo Fiction

  argentina, auction, cost, creative writing, Death, diego maradona, euthanasia, expense, Fiction, Flash Fiction, football, health care, human, humane, husband, ill health, kill, life, literature, maradona, mariticide, money, murder, old age, pain, Short Story, story, suffocation, Sunday Photo Fiction, t-shirt, the hand of god, world cup, Writing, writing prompt