Tag: senile

• A MURMUR

  

  He watched the black mass moving through the dawn sky. Backlit by the sun’s orange-yellow glow, the sweeping and swooping birds danced in uniformity. It was, he mused, a stunning example of the beauty that could be found in the world. But not for him. For him, beauty in life had ended. There was only…

  Iain Kelly

  19/09/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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• CANADIAN ROCKIES RETIREMENT HOME

  

  ‘You don’t think the mountain range is enough to keep them out?’ ‘Nope,’ Frank spat as he knocked in the last fence post. ‘But if they manage to get over that,’ Giles pointed to the tall peaks in the distance, ‘then this fence isn’t going to stop them.’ Frank threw down the hammer and looked…

  Iain Kelly

  02/01/2019

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  America, border, canada, comedy, creative writing, Dark humor, dementia, drabble, fence, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gun, humor, law, legal, literature, memory, property, self defence, senile, Short Story, story, united states, Writing, writing prompt, yankees