Tag: midwest

• AMERICANA

  

  Every Friday night: finished school for the week they gathered at diners before hopping into their daddy’s cars and cruising through the streets, then drag-racing over at the abandoned drive-in on Parsons Street. Every week the private guard at the abandoned drive-in complained at the police station. ‘Teenagers,’ he was told. This new breed of…

  Iain Kelly

  18/02/2018

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

  America, americana, arms, Cars, creative writing, culture, drag racing, drive-in, Fiction, Flash Fiction, gun, gun crime, gun laws, james dean, literature, midtown, midwest, murder, second amendment, shooting, Short Story, small town, social, society, story, Sunday Photo Prompt, teenager, tragedy, tresppassing, violence, Writing, writing prompt

• THE WORST NUCLEAR BUNKER IN THE WORLD

  October 28th 1962, the town of Midwest, Wyoming, USA. ‘But why clothes pegs?’ ‘Very useful things, you never know when you might need one.’ Jack looked again at the selection of jars and packets on the shelves. ‘It doesn’t seem like much. Wouldn’t we need to stay underground for months or years?’ Victor sighed. ‘It’s…

  Iain Kelly

  11/10/2016

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  America, cold war, comedy, creative writing, cuban missile crisis, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, history, humour, john f. kennedy, krushchev, literature, midwest, nuclear, nuclear bunker, Short Story, Writing, wyoming