Tag: memory

• A PIZZ A’ NONSENSE

  

  ‘Looks more like a wedding cake about to fall over than a pizza.’ ‘A pizza?’ ‘The Leaning Tower of Pizza.’ ‘No, it’s Pisa.’ ‘That’s what I said, Pizza. Anyway, don’t worry about the photo, I can straighten that up in Photoshop.’ ‘No, it’s meant to lean over like that.’ ‘That’s ridiculous, who built that?’ ‘It […]

  Iain Kelly

  02/03/2022

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  building, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, holiday, humour, italy, literature, memory, nonsense, photoshop, piazza, pisa, pizza, pun, Short Story, silly, story, vacation, Writing, writing prompt

• HE WAITED SILENTLY

  

  The way was clear, the route less so. They could all picture it. The blue skies, the light glinting on the water, the sand between their toes. And they had been told this was the way, so they followed. Many were soon lost, or sacrificed, or dismissed. The leaders had no time for weakness or […]

  Iain Kelly

  10/03/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  #fowc, beach, belief, compassion, creative writing, cult, dark, determination, end, false, Fiction, Flash Fiction, followers, Friday Fictioneers, hope, island, literature, memory, metaphor, mindwashing, religion, sacrifice, sand, sea, Short Story, silence, sky, spiritual, story, sunlight, waiting, water, weak, Writing, writing prompt

• PARADOX

  

  Two new hips and knees. A hair transplant. New skin. A bionic liver. A new kidney. My third heart. I went through the list in my head. Immortality came at a cost. There wasn’t much of my original body left, the one I was born with. But looked the same as I did when I […]

  Iain Kelly

  20/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, age, brain, catch-22, creative writing, experience, fear, feelings, Fiction, Flash Fiction, heart, immortality, life, literature, medical, memory, mortality, paradox, parts, replace, ship, Short Story, story, surgery, time, transplant, whole, Writing, writing prompt

• SCARLET RED

  

  Her scarlet red hair tumbled down her back as she released it, cascading over her pale, white skin. He reached out and felt the smoothness of her, brushing the hair over her shoulder and tracing a line down her spine to the hollow above her buttocks. ‘After all this is over, we could escape together.’ […]

  Iain Kelly

  30/04/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, back, bombardment, bottom, breasts, buttocks, cascade, creative writing, dream, erotic, Fiction, Flash Fiction, hair, hope, kiss, life, lips, literature, love, love-making, memory, mouth, naked, red, river, scarlet, sensual, sex, Short Story, story, tender, Thursday Photo Prompt, war, waterfall, Writing, writing prompt

• IT HAPPENS TO US ALL

  

  He stood like a statue, frozen on the spot. He went back over all the decisions that had led him to this moment, raking through his memory for the answer that would not reveal itself through the fog. He reached out but could not grasp the key information he had forgotten. He tried to not […]

  Iain Kelly

  27/02/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, aim, all, comedy, creative writing, everyday, Fiction, Flash Fiction, forget, forgetful, human, humor, humour, lapse, literature, memory, mind, relate, Short Story, story, task, Thursday Photo Prompt, Writing, writing prompt