Tag: market

• SURROGATES

  

  Black and white images from the past. Not hers, someone else’s. The smiling portrait of a young woman, an elderly couple in front of their house, a grandfather, a brother and sister. A family, a historical document of a happy life. $1 for the basket. The seller had no idea who the people in the…

  Iain Kelly

  09/10/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  Abuse, creative writing, drabble, dreams, family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, history, literature, market, nightmare, past, people, photographs, photos, Short Story, stall, story, strangers, surrogate, trauma, Writing, writing prompt

• ABSOLUTION

  

  It was only after she had left that he remembered the Deli store had closed down last week. ‘Just popping to the Deli store,’ she had called up the stairs. He already knew where she was going. It was just that the lie was so barefaced this time. He decided to head out to the…

  Iain Kelly

  27/02/2019

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  abortion, absolution, child, choice, clinic, consequences, creative writing, debate, deli, drink, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, guilt, literature, market, medical, mistake, pro-choice, pro-life, right to life, shame, Short Story, store, story, unborn, Writing, writing prompt