Tag: PTSD

• MUD PIE MOJO

  

  ‘Man, all I want is to eat a Mud Pie Mojo at the Cold Stone Creamery on North Marion Street. I’d give my other damn leg just to get back there.’ ‘You’ll get there. Give it time.’ ‘Easy for you to say.’ ‘Never said it would be easy.’ Rachel felt the scar tissue and the…

  Iain Kelly

  04/07/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  amputation, chicago, cold stone creamery, creative writing, date, doctor, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, hospital, ice cream, limb, literature, loss, love, massage, mental, physical, PTSD, rehab, rehabilitation, scars, Short Story, soldier, story, trauma, veteran, war, Writing, writing prompt

• THE DAILY POST: DISAPPEAR

  ‘Sammy,’ he shouted now, more desperate. Other parents stared, two or three came over to him, looking concerned, willing to help. He tried to explain to them, his words were shrill and panicked, ‘He was right here, right here, at the slide, I had his hand, and then I turned for a second and he…

  Iain Kelly

  22/05/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, The Daily Post

  abduction, child, creative writing, daily post, disappear, Fiction, Flash Fiction, grief, life, literature, loss, mental illness, missing, nightmare, panic, parent, park, prompt, PTSD, Short Story, spring, story, stress, The Daily Post, Writing, writing prompt