Tag: new start

• THE RETURN

  

  ‘She’s back.’ The word went out. Of course, she’d never really been away. She had always been there, in our hearts and in our minds and in everything we thought and did. The last few years had been tough. Many had suffered. We clung on to the hope that she would one day return to…

  Iain Kelly

  21/01/2021

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

  

  Day Twenty-Two: Today we climbed to the peak above our valley and staked our flag. We had an official ceremony with just original the founders of the New State of America. Later we joined the others building the wall around our border. We don’t want to build barriers, but we have to do something to…

  Iain Kelly

  25/06/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

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• THE NINE

  

  Rosa Maria watched Alejandro throw open the shutters. On the corner of Calle 9 and Avenue 5, they were open for business. Alejandro looked at his madre. This time he would make her proud. Her husband murdered, they had fled from Tijuana. Rosa Maria had scraped together what she could until she had enough to open the small restaurant. ‘La…

  Iain Kelly

  11/02/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

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