Tag: metal

• SCRAP METAL

  

  The thing weighs a tonne, almost broke the table when I finally hefted it onto it. Got some buttons on it. Give one a tap and it makes a pleasing ‘clack’. Letters on them. Some sort of coding device? Nowhere to plug it in, can’t see an on button. Bit at the top slides side…

  Iain Kelly

  25/03/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• HARVESTING

  

  He picked up a handful of the brown earth and let it run through his fingers. The last time he had been here there had been nothing but the cavernous pit, reaching down almost half a mile into the ground. Now the vast open mine had been completely filled in. Over the top of it…

  Iain Kelly

  03/10/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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