Tag: nursery

• DAYBREAK

  

  The sun rose. The world went on. As if nothing had happened. As if everything was as it should have been. He found her in the nursery. Staring out the window. The sky was a fiery red. It tinged her tears. She gripped the unused blanket. This is a response to the #writephoto Prompt: Daybreak […]

  Iain Kelly

  30/01/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, birth, child, cot, creative writing, daybreak, Death, Fiction, Flash Fiction, grief, life, literature, loss, Man, miscarriage, nursery, parents, Short Story, sky, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, Woman, world, Writing, writing prompt

• CRITICAL INTERPRETATION

  

  Felicity tried to interrupt the critic, but he had built up such a head of steam he wouldn’t be stopped. ‘The sunflower, you see, is a comment on Van Gogh’s work and the astronomical price OF art at modern auctions. It is saying to you, the viewer, is art really worth that much when a […]

  Iain Kelly

  20/01/2019

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

  art, artist, assistant, child, children, colour, comedy, cow, creative writing, critic, display, dog, donkey, farmyard, Fiction, Flash Fiction, gallery, humor, humour, interpretation, literature, modern, nursery, painting, school, Short Story, show, story, Sunday Photo Fiction, sunflower, van gogh, work, Writing, writing prompt

• A CHRISTMAS STORY

  

  ‘The setting for our Christmas story today is a mountainous region far away, a land of hills and fields. There lived three men there…’ A small hand shot up, ‘Was one of them Santa?’ ‘No, one of them was not Santa. As I was saying, there lived three men there who tended to their flock […]

  Iain Kelly

  20/12/2018

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

  #writephoto, agnostic, atheism, christian, christmas, comedy, creative writing, elf, Fiction, Flash Fiction, funny, humor, humour, literature, Lord, nativity, nursery, reindeer, religion, santa, saviour, setting, Short Story, sleigh, son of God, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, true meaning, Writing, writing prompt

• AFTER HAMELIN

  

  ‘Car keys?’ he asked the woman sprawled on the ground, arm fishing around down the drain. ‘House keys.’ She looked up, squinting at the silhouette of the man. He was dressed in red and orange checks. ‘Perhaps I can help?’ She pulled herself up. ‘Feel free.’ Instead of getting down to look in the drain, […]

  Iain Kelly

  12/11/2017

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

  child snatcher, children, creative writing, drain, fable, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flautist, flute, flutist, germany, hamelin, keys, literature, myth, nursery, nursery ryhme, pied piper, piper, retelling, sequel, Short Story, story, Sunday Photo Fiction, tale, Writing, writing prompt