Tag: relations

• GREENWOOD AVENUE

  

  A final swipe of the cloth across the shining black leather and Dick Rowland leaned back. Another satisfied customer. ‘Can see your face in them, like a mirror.’ ‘Thank you, Dick,’ said Walt, flipping him a shiny cent. Old Bill slipped into the vacated seat. ‘Just need to visit the restroom.’ Dick said. ‘I’m in…

  Iain Kelly

  30/11/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

  America, black, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, greenwood avenue, jim crow, literature, race, racism, Rape, razed, relations, riot, segregation, shoeshine, Short Story, story, tulsa, What Pegman Saw, white, Writing, writing prompt

• OLD JANE

  

  595, that’s what Jane had told me right enough. It didn’t figure, her being how I remembered her from school an’ all, and the house I was looking at now. Back then she had lived in this real palatial house, her father was some hot-shot lawyer type. How had she ended up in this dump?…

  Iain Kelly

  01/07/2018

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

  creative writing, family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, friends, life, literature, race, racism, relations, reunion, reunited, rundown, school, shack, Short Story, story, Sunday Photo Fiction, visit, Writing, writing prompt