Tag: phobia

• SCOPOPHOBIA

  

  She’d asked them to brick up the opening but the doctor said it was against building regulations. Instead she got planters and grew grass in them. After a few weeks it was tall enough to fill half the void. She tended to it in the hope that it would fill the opening completely. They tried…

  Iain Kelly

  08/08/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• SNAKE BITE

  ‘Put your hand in.’ Charlie hesitated and looked into the dark hole in the rock. What was the worst that could happen? It’s just a rock, he told himself. Legend said it was the skull of an old dinosaur. Another said medieval warriors proved their strength by striking it with their sword. Others believed it…

  Iain Kelly

  09/08/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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