Tag: non-fiction

• THE RACE

  

  Rain batters off the window. I lie in bed listening to it. It is my favourite sound, until I remember I have to get up and go out. I get up and pull on layers of clothing. Definitely a day for a hat and jacket and gloves. Then into the car, with just a piece…

  Iain Kelly

  17/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Non-fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, bed, covid-19, creative writing, event, exercise, exuberant, Fiction, fitness, Flash Fiction, great scottish run, jogging, literature, mass, miserable, non-fiction, normal, pandemic, participation, race, rain, running, scotland, Short Story, sport, start, story, warm-up, weather, Writing, writing prompt

• THAT UNFAMILIAR FEELING

  

  It’s hard to describe what it is like to be a football supporter of the Scottish National team. Most of the time it is a painful experience. It’s not that we’re bad at football. We invented the game and played in the first ever international match against England. We’ve had some great teams and great…

  Iain Kelly

  13/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Non-fiction, Short Story, Writing

  #fowc, #ttc, endorse, euro 2020, european championships, failure, familiar, finals, Flash Fiction, football, glorious, literature, lose, nation, non-fiction, one word challenge, qualifying, rise up, scotland, serbia, Short Story, soccer, sport, stevie clarke, story, success, superstition, Three Things Challenge, unfamiliar, unlucky, win, Writing, writing prompt

• SURMISE

  

  Surmise: noun, to suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it.”he surmised that something must be wrong.” See also: guess, conjecture, suspect. I surmise that there is intelligent life form other than ourselves somewhere out there in the universe. I surmise that there is a God, or some God or all the…

  Iain Kelly

  06/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, accuse, alien, alternative facts, America, boris johnson, brexit, britain, comedy, conjecture, creative writing, election, elvis, evidence, fact, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flat earth, God, guess, humor, humour, john lennon, literature, michael jackson, non-fiction, religion, Short Story, Space, story, surmise, trump, universe, Writing, writing prompt

• IMAGINE

  

  ‘Imagine all the people, sharing all the world,’ sang John Lennon. And they shot him. ‘I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,’ ministered the Reverend Martin Luther…

  Iain Kelly

  17/01/2019

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

  #writephoto, assassination, fact, gandhi, harmony, hate, imagination, imagine, inspiration, kennedy, killed, lennon, lincoln, love, non-fiction, peace, preach, quotes, shot, speech, words, world, Writing, writing prompt

• FALLING WITH STYLE

  

    WATCH MY SKYDIVE VIDEO HERE A few days ago I completed a tandem skydive for Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity. A link to the video is above, and the story of the day is below. ‘Over eight thousand parachute jumps, I’ve only ever had one malfunction.’ He leaves the statement hanging there. No-one queries it.…

  Iain Kelly

  01/09/2017

  Non-fiction, Short Story, Video, Writing

  autobiographical, autobiography, bucket list, charity, extreme sport, falling, fife, fife airfield, fife airport, flying, freefall, non-fiction, parachute, plane, skydive, skydive st andrews, sport, Writing