Tag: scene

• WHAT LIES BENEATH

  

  **This is an excerpt from my new novel, ‘A Justified State’.** He raised his hand to shield his eyes from the water spray as the launch drew closer to the base of the towering wall. He could make out the gate that was lodged halfway open. The water lapped around the base as the pressure…

  Iain Kelly

  13/12/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, Literature, Thursday Photo Prompt

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• HIS DAILY PERAMBLE

  

  The first snow of the winter arrived. He looked out at the path and the fields, transformed, covered in a smooth white cowling. This might be the last time he would see such a sight, the pure untrodden blanket, but he’d thought that every winter for the last decade and still he soldiered on. Each…

  Iain Kelly

  29/11/2018

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

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• VIGILANTE

  

  The body had been found a mile away. The blood stains on the park bench, and the ground surrounding it, corresponded to the mutilation seen on the victim. His death had been violent and tortuous. A uniformed officer finished putting up the crime scene tape.  A crowd of onlookers had already gathered. Samson scanned the…

  Iain Kelly

  06/08/2018

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

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• BYSTANDERS IN A BORDER TOWN

  

  Mamá Renata lifted the washing basket and hobbled down the stairs. She looked out onto the cobbled street. Javi was there, running around with the other niños in the dusty sunshine. Señor Augusto swept his step. A Moorish Gecko skittered down a shaded wall and across the street. ‘Javi, diez minutos,’ Mamá Renata called. Her grandson waved. An…

  Iain Kelly

  17/07/2018

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

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• W IS FOR WARSAW, POLAND

  A SCENE OF DIALOGUE FROM WAR-TORN WARSAW 18th April 1943; The Jewish Ghetto, Warsaw, Poland Jakub, Benjamin and Stefan sit around a table, cramped in the small room, with no lighting. ‘What do we do, let them take us? Then we are as good as dead already.’ ‘If we resist they will kill us where…

  Iain Kelly

  26/04/2018

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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