Tag: nuclear

• THE ENEMY WITHIN

  

  ‘This is Mount Lemmon Observatory calling, is there anyone receiving?’ Only static hiss replied. Marshall rubbed his sweat-stained forehead. ‘Can anyone update us? What has happened?’ The static noise stopped. Dead silence. Marshall maneuvered the telescope with the controls. He tilted it down to face the horizon. Outside he saw bare, dead trees and barren…

  Iain Kelly

  25/04/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• THE ISLAND BETWEEN

  

  Patrick ran along the path, hands spread wide, feeling the tall rapeseed through his fingers. The sky was a deep blue, the sun was shining. It felt good to be out of the stuffy house. For the first time in a week the wind direction on the island had changed and the radioactivity levels had…

  Iain Kelly

  15/02/2018

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

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• THE WORST NUCLEAR BUNKER IN THE WORLD

  October 28th 1962, the town of Midwest, Wyoming, USA. ‘But why clothes pegs?’ ‘Very useful things, you never know when you might need one.’ Jack looked again at the selection of jars and packets on the shelves. ‘It doesn’t seem like much. Wouldn’t we need to stay underground for months or years?’ Victor sighed. ‘It’s…

  Iain Kelly

  11/10/2016

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  America, cold war, comedy, creative writing, cuban missile crisis, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, history, humour, john f. kennedy, krushchev, literature, midwest, nuclear, nuclear bunker, Short Story, Writing, wyoming