Tag: 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

  anxiety, creative writing, crowd, danger, Death, drabble, drug, easing, end, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, green, life, lights, literature, lockdown, market, masks, new normal, normal, opening, overdose, people, red, relax, restrictions, risk, Short Story, story, traffic, up, vaccine, valium, Writing, writing prompt

• 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

• GETTING BACK TO NORMAL

  

  Archie stretched up and swung the hammer, managing to nudge the satellite dish. ‘How about now?’ he shouted through the window. Agnes checked the television. ‘Still nothing.’ Archie sighed. He was not going to miss the first live football match in four months because the satellite signal was on the blink. He made another lunge […]

  Iain Kelly

  17/06/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  aerial, agnes, Archie, comedy, coronavirus, covid-19, creative writing, dish, drabble, easing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, football, Friday Fictioneers, humor, humour, life, literature, lockdown, measures, normal, satellite, Short Story, soccer, society, sport, story, television, televsion, Writing, writing prompt

• THE NEW NORMAL

  

  Elaine looked at the water lapping against the side of the house. She could see the small white line she had made yesterday. ‘Level is the same as yesterday,’ she said. Albert nodded. That meant the dam had held. Another storm had passed and their town was secure. ‘Anything you need from the store?’ ‘Just […]

  Iain Kelly

  10/09/2017

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

  Boat, c’est la vie, climate, climate change, creative writing, dystopia, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flood, future, house, hurricane, life, literature, normal, rain, river, rowing, sci-fi, Short Story, storm, story, Sunday Photo Fiction, water, water polo, Writing, writing prompt