Tag: reconstruction

• TIME LOOP

  

  Tennessee, 1865: Mary-Louise folded the newspaper in half and laid it down and looked at her husband. ‘We should at least give President Johnson a chance. He’s sayin’ he wants to bring the country together. You don’t think that’s a good idea?’ Tennessee, 2020: Roddy turned off the television and looked at his wife. ‘You…

  Iain Kelly

  11/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, America, andrew johnson, biden, civil war, confederate, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, folk, lincoln, literature, MAGA, north, peace, people, president, rebel, rebellion, reconstruction, scalawag, scallywag, Short Story, slavery, south, story, tennessee, trump, union, Writing, writing prompt

• 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

  a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, allied, AtoZchallenge, bombing, britain, church, commemoration, creative writing, cross, detente, dome, dresden, Fiction, fire, Flash Fiction, frauenkirche, generations, george bahr, germany, hope, Humanity, inferno, literature, london, neumarkt, RAF, rebuilding, reconciliation, reconstruction, royal air force, Short Story, story, world war 2, Writing, writing prompt