Tag: right

• THE TROUBLE WITH CHOICES

  

  Life’s all about choices. Take diet: instead of the full fat burger, choose the veggie burger. Instead of wine, water. Instead of chocolate, carrot and dip. Everything in moderation. Take exercise: instead of sitting in front of the television, choose getting out for a walk or a run. Take politics: instead of supporting the rich…

  Iain Kelly

  14/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, choices, creative writing, diet, enforced, exercise, Fiction, Flash Fiction, hate, instead, left, literature, mask, pandemic, political, right, rights, scary, Short Story, speech, story, time, Writing, writing prompt

• THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE

  

  She could hear her mother’s voice from the grave, ‘Is it worth it?’ The world tilts out of kilter. Sun sears her eyeballs. Cool tarmac against her face. Shards of broken green glass. A dent in a red metal bin. Memories of the night before. Anger and hatred. Standing firm. Too slow to run. Her…

  Iain Kelly

  30/09/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  America, beaten, black, creative writing, debate, demonstration, drabble, equality, far-right, fascism, Fiction, fight, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, left, literature, lives, matter, politics, protest, proud boys, right, rights, riot, riots, Short Story, soul, story, streets, struggle, violence, Writing, writing prompt

• CAL’S CALLING

  

  The heavy snow deadened the sound of the forest. Despite the swirling snowfall, there was a stillness. Cal lay on the soft ground, his eye press to the sight, his ungloved finger around the trigger, the rifle caressed against his shoulder. His father lay next to him. A hundred yards away the stag raised his…

  Iain Kelly

  17/10/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

  #writephoto, animal, calling, creative writing, deer, father, Fiction, Flash Fiction, hit, hunter, hunting, literature, miss, passage, respect, rifle, right, Short Story, shot, son, spirit, stag, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, Writing, writing prompt

• 50/50

  

  Todd cursed himself. He inched out further. The frame and glass creaked. He froze. He peered down, trying to make out the room below. It definitely wasn’t Lacey’s bedroom. She had told him the skylight on the left. Only now did he realise he didn’t know if that was left as he faced the house,…

  Iain Kelly

  18/09/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  clandestine, comedy, creative writing, drabble, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, glass, humor, humour, illicit, left, literature, love, panel, parents, right, Romance, room, Short Story, skylight, story, teenagers, Writing, writing prompt