Tag: new normal

• EASING RESTRICTIONS

  

  Green for Go. The hustle and bustle. The crowded market. The anxiety. Tell yourself they’ve all been vaccinated. Tell yourself the numbers are small. Faces unmasked. Breathing. Germs. Raw meat. Sweating. Palpitations. Get out. An open street and space. Relax, everything is normal. The green signal flashes. Step out onto the road. The driver doesn’t…

  Iain Kelly

  07/04/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• GATHERING AT THE CAFE ROUGE

  

  Typical. Hours of practice on facial proportions, angles and shadows wasted. She’d spent so long getting the nose and mouth just right on each person in the scene. She sighed and mixed the colours. Plenty of medical light blue for most. A couple of brighter hues for the more imaginative people. A small rectangle added…

  Iain Kelly

  22/07/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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