Tag: rebuilding

• D IS FOR DRESDEN, GERMANY

  

  A STORY OF DÉTENTE IN DRESDEN, GERMANY Alan Smith stood among the locals of Dresden in the reconstructed Neumarkt, looking with the crowd towards the Frauenkirche with its wondrous dome topped by a golden cross gleaming in the dusk sky.  The dignitaries were filing into the building, German mainly but also religious leaders from far…

  Iain Kelly

  04/04/2018

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• SURVIVING THE APOCALYPSE

  

  On the wall hung the cracked television they couldn’t watch because there was no electricity. The kitchen had an old cooker and refrigerator but without power they were merely  metal cupboards. And now this. ‘What do you think? Our new bathroom suite.’ ‘Where did you get them from?’ ‘Found them. Minor defects but perfectly intact.…

  Iain Kelly

  29/11/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• REBUILDING

  

  The new Buckingham Palace looked exactly like the old one had from the air. The last remnants of the construction site had almost gone, only a large fence remained, to be removed before the official opening next week. The pilot brought the Boeing 787 Dreamliner round in another long circle over the city as he waited…

  Iain Kelly

  23/10/2016

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Sunday Photo Fiction

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