Tag: panic

• OPEN DOOR

  

  It always followed the same pattern. Middle of the night. Panicked phone call. Incoherent story. She always ended up agreeing to go over. This is different. Door wide open. Probably just a neighbour didn’t close it right. Out of habit she checks the mailbox. Empty. Up the stairs, lit by flickering halogen. Along the corridor.…

  Iain Kelly

  03/03/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  #fowc, abduction, agent, aid, bed, call, creative writing, door, drama, dread, empty, fear, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flat, Friday Fictioneers, help, literature, mailbox, missing, nightmare, panic, paranoia, pattern, phone, routine, Short Story, story, taken, thriller, Writing, writing prompt

• NO TROUBLE AT ALL

  

  Alongside temperature checks every time I enter the building, my work are introducing rapid flow Covid-19 testing next week for all staff that have to be in the building. Everyone will also get a proximity alarm that will go off if someone is closer than 2 metres away. The kids are at home and we’ve…

  Iain Kelly

  15/01/2021

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

  #fowc, alarm, bad times, blues, coronavirus, covid-19, creative writing, diary, family, friends, home schooling, journal, literature, no trouble, non-fiction, pandemic, panic, real life, schooling, Short Story, story, symptons, teachers, temperature, testing, trouble, trying, winter, work, Writing, writing prompt

• A FUTILE LIFE

  

  It was time to give up. Admit defeat. Accept the desolation. The whole thing was futile. Life was futile. It was just another thing, on top of everything else, that made him angry about this year. A year of pandemic, riots, protests, more Brexit, more Trump, more Boris. Was it no wonder the country was…

  Iain Kelly

  25/09/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Three Things Challenge

  #threethingschallenge, 2020, 3TC, brexit, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, futile, humiliation, humor, humour, literature, mad, pandemic, panic, panic buying, short, Short Story, story, supermarket, tall, Three Things Challenge, toilet paper, toilet roll, top shelf, Writing, writing prompt

• BLINDSIDED

  

  Dig the groove, the bass making the ground tremor. It robs  me of my vital sense, obliterating the noises I need to guide me. I don’t care, I’m along for the ride. The crowd surrounds, a swaying mass that cocoons me. I am lost in the music. Then. An offbeat rhythm disconcerts. A sudden surge…

  Iain Kelly

  20/05/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  attack, bass, blind, blindsided, concert, control, creative writing, disability, drabble, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gig, groove, life, literature, music, night, panic, passion, rhythm, sense, Short Story, story, sway, Writing, writing prompt

• THE SHOW MUST GO ON

  

  The lights go up, the cast take their bow. Silence greets them from the empty auditorium. They keep going because there is nothing else to be done. Night after night, show after show, repeat and repeat. Bereft of enthusiasm they go through the motions, a ghost-like shadow of their former ardour. Delirium set in weeks…

  Iain Kelly

  26/02/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  boredom, coronavirus, cough, covid-19, creative writing, drabble, empty, fever, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, ghostly, isolation, literature, lockdown, musical, panic, Plague, quarantine, repeat, routine, Short Story, show, story, theatre, Writing, writing prompt