Tag: one word challenge

• ANTICIPATION

  

  It was time. The anticipation building up to this moment had been growing as the weeks, then days, then hours had slowly ticked by. He hooked up the antique laptop to the power supply and prayed it would work. It seemed to take an age running through the start up process. It was definitely getting…

  Iain Kelly

  03/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• DICTATOR

  

  ‘What will pacify them?’ ‘Nothing other than your resignation, and even then.’ She left the sentence hanging. ‘What do you mean? They want me dead?’ ‘A lot of them have lost loved ones, they want to see equal justice.’ ‘I did it for them,’ he roared. ‘To protect them. To protect our country.’ He slumped…

  Iain Kelly

  02/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• INSATIABLE

  

  He couldn’t control it. He needed it. He wanted it. His desire was insatiable. He could not live without it. It was what he needed more than sex. More than money. More than power. He had to have it. In the middle of the night. At dawn. At dinner. At work. On the golf course.…

  Iain Kelly

  30/10/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• PERTINENT

  

  ‘There are only two pertinent questions: who stands to gain the most, and who stands to lose the most?’ My old partner’s advice circling around my head. At the start of every case, as I approach every crime scene, as I question every suspect – who gains and who loses? Up until now those questions…

  Iain Kelly

  29/10/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• THE MINISTRY OF DISTRACTION

  

  ‘What’s it to be today, Sir?’ ‘Options?’ ‘Well, we have the usual of course: immigration outrage, racial injustice, free school meals for the poorest children…’ ‘Stop, stop, stop. Are you mad? All of those can be linked back to me. What else?’ ‘Ah, you want something a bit juicier, more conspiracy theory. How about the…

  Iain Kelly

  28/10/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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