Tag: return

• THE RETURN

  

  ‘She’s back.’ The word went out. Of course, she’d never really been away. She had always been there, in our hearts and in our minds and in everything we thought and did. The last few years had been tough. Many had suffered. We clung on to the hope that she would one day return to […]

  Iain Kelly

  21/01/2021

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• THE WAY ACROSS THE WATER

  

  They called it a victory. It didn’t feel like a victory to him. He had seen to much to call it a victory. The bombed-out buildings; the fighting; the gunshots; the gas; the bombs; the dead bodies; the dead soldiers, theirs and his own comrades; the bloodshed; the injured; the children crying in the streets; […]

  Iain Kelly

  07/05/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• THE UMBRELLAS OF NEW YORK

  

  Wind blew through the trees, blowing the snow up from the ground, gusting around Guy’s face. He pulled his collar up further. Across the park he watched Madeline, her bright green umbrella luminous against the white background. Their daughter, Francis, gleefully skipped around her. ‘She’s moved on, married someone else, she’s happy. Leave them be.’ […]

  Iain Kelly

  19/09/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• THE TURRETS OF HOME

  

  Trudging through the cold night, the last remnants of the winter snow on the ground, she finally saw the lights glowing from the windows ahead. Above her the familiar turrets of the castle loomed. Four years since she had been taken by the crusaders. How she had changed since then, no longer the innocent thirteen […]

  Iain Kelly

  24/05/2018

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

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• RETURN TO THE PAST

  

  The heat was relentless. Even under his straw hat, Phillips could feel his scalp burning. The locals stayed indoors during the middle of the day, when the sun was at it’s peak. That was why he chose to take his daily stroll at this time. His cane slipped on the uneven cobbles as he wandered […]

  Iain Kelly

  06/10/2017

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fiction, Short Story

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