Tag: napoleon

• DEAD ROSES

  

  Dead roses in winter, withered and defeated. The Grand Armée reduced to an icy hell. The villages they entered had nothing to offer. They had stripped them bare of what little they had on their way to Moscow. Starving, frost-bitten and dog-tired, he stumbled on. To drop now meant certain death. No comrade would burden…

  Iain Kelly

  24/02/2021

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

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• HUGO

  

  Paris, 1829. Victor hastened along the snow-covered street.  A warm fireside awaited him. Soon he would be surrounded by dear Adèle and his children, no doubt excited by the late snowfall. ‘Excusez-moi monsieur, a few francs for a veteran?’ The beggar held out his hand. Victor drew back, revulsed at the sight of the disfigured…

  Iain Kelly

  17/04/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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