Tag: regret

• ARMISTICE DAY, 1918

  

  ‘The decoration’s are a bit much, those candles’ll set the place on fire.’ ‘You hush. We can’t have him coming home to a dull house without some sort of celebration.’ ‘He won’t be back for days yet.’ ‘But we’ll be ready for him when he does come home.’ She stepped down and looked at the…

  Iain Kelly

  11/11/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• TIMELESS REGRET

  

  Battered by the elements he soldiered on. The years had taken their toll on him, more so than the landscape around him. The erosion of the rocks and gnarling of the trees happened incrementally, while his own physical degradation had hit him in the blink of an eye. He tramped over the fields and through…

  Iain Kelly

  21/02/2019

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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• AVENUE OF PEACE

  

  And now the light at the end of the avenue calls, the journey almost complete. At one end, back that way, new seeds are growing, young saplings stretching from the earth to which I must return. Once young myself, I have walked the avenue of my life until the end. There have been mistakes along…

  Iain Kelly

  17/05/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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• THE JEWEL AND THE SEA

  

             The waves lapped on the hull. The mainsail flapped in the gentle breeze. The sun burned. The coast was a hazy blur in the distance behind them. The woman lay motionless on the deck of the sailboat. She lay on her back, basking in the sun’s rays. She wore a…

  Iain Kelly

  03/08/2016

  Fiction, Flash Fiction, Literature, Short Story, Writing

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