Tag: riots

• INTIMATE

  

  Could you be this intimate with anyone else? Anyone apart from your lifelong best friend? She had been with plenty of men, in relationships and one night stands. She had never felt anything like this. She looked over at her. She was staring back at her. They were thinking the same thing. It felt right. […]

  Iain Kelly

  07/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, bed, capitol, comforting, creative writing, democracy, equality, erotic, explicit, Fiction, Flash Fiction, friendship, gay, intimate, lesbian, LGBQT+, life, literature, new dawn, news, passion, politics, protest, relationship, rights, riots, sex, sexual, sheets, Short Story, story, stranger, Woman, Writing, writing prompt

• REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME

  

  I’m breaking my own rule for once and writing something overtly political: an opinion piece, and it’s just my opinion, so feel free to disagree. Regardless of the eventual outcome of the US Presidential election, more Americans have voted for Donald Trump in 2020 than they did in 2016. Let that sink in. Half of […]

  Iain Kelly

  04/11/2020

  #fowc, Commentary, Non-fiction, Writing

  #fowc, abortion, America, biden, civil, climate, democracy, democrat, election, fundamentalist, gun control, health care, immigration, insane, outcome, pandemic, politics, president, racism, religion, republican, result, riots, senate, state, trump, USA, votes, voting, war, white house

• 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

• A TALE OF TWO WORLDS

  

  Palm trees and bright lights and smiling people. The glamour. The glitz. The full Hollywood razzmatazz. Over-turned cars and burning fires and desperate people. The injustice. The violence. The full social unrest. Cameras clicking and flashbulbs sparking and the crowd cheers. The gowns. The radiant idols. The elite on show. Cameras clicking and flashbulbs sparking […]

  Iain Kelly

  12/08/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  America, black lives matter, City, class, country, creative writing, disparity, drabble, europe, far left, far right, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, glamour, Humanity, injustice, justice, literature, loss, political, poverty, racism, riots, Short Story, social, society, story, system, world, Writing, writing prompt