Tag: roots

• ROOTS

  

  Ma roots is in Barbados, so ma Mama tells me all d’time. ‘Yo was born there, Ah was born there, yo grandaddy was born there. Dat’s where yo is from.’ Funny ting is, Ah feel no connection to dat far off place at all. We left there when Ah wasn’t even one year old, part…

  Iain Kelly

  09/05/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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• ROOTS

  

  ‘Such beautiful hair. No idea where you get it from.’ Her father smiled down at her, running his fingers through her light natural curls. She sat on his knee looking up at his proud smile and bald head. What a mess she thought, staring in the mirror. Dressed in black, her hair a tangled mess…

  Iain Kelly

  08/01/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

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