Tag: pattern

• 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

• AESTHETICALLY PLEASING

  

  How they had mocked him at Right-Angle Brick Co.: What’s wrong with an old-fashioned rectangle? A deformed brick gave him the inspiration, he had to make order out of its irregularity. And here it was, laid out across the town square, each polygon snugly slotting together (debate still raged about whether they qualified as hexadecagons).…

  Iain Kelly

  02/12/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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