Tag: Short Story

• URBAN STREET

  I walked down Urban Street where the kid had taken the bullet last night. The Community Center sat on the corner. It looked like a vacant lot. All the windows were boarded up. I heard singing. A mournful gospel voice. I pulled open the door and edged in. The choir broke into a powerful cry.…

  Iain Kelly

  28/01/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

  America, buffalo, community center, creative writing, Death, drugs, family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, gun law, gun violence, homicide, literature, murder, police, poverty, Short Story, social injustice, society, story, urban decay, urban street, violence, What Pegman Saw, Writing

• TAM, IN HONOUR OF RABBIE BURNS

  Tam stumbled out the pub into his car. ‘Off home then, Meg,’ he patted the grey metal, named after the horse she had replaced. After several attempts he managed to crank the engine into life and got behind the wheel. He weaved drunkenly along the single track road. As he passed the old church and…

  Iain Kelly

  25/01/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  a tale, ayr, bridge of doon, burn’s day, burns, creative writing, driving, drunk, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, ghosts, graveyard, haggis, literature, nationla poet, robert burns, scotland, Short Story, spirits, story, tam, tam o’shanter, witches, Writing

• YEAR OF THE FIRE ROOSTER

  

  ‘Hell of a way to start the new year.’ Samson looked round the room. Everything was red. Decorations, walls, the clothes on the victim, the pool of blood on the floor, the spatter of blood on the wall. ‘It’s the contradiction, you see?’ Cheng explained. ‘The colour red. Chinese New Year is celebrated with the…

  Iain Kelly

  23/01/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  blood, china, chinatown, chinese new year, creative writing, detective fiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, literature, murder, New year, noir, red, rooster, serial killer, Short Story, story, Writing, year of the rooster

• HOLIDAY OF YOUR DREAMS

  

  In the dark, bare concrete room huge bloodshot eyes leered out at her. Bright red lips manically grinned. Tufts of dishevelled green and purple hair sprouted from the white scalp. A venomous sharp red nose pushed and prodded her. ‘Come on down to the County Hotel. So much to see and do,’ said the clown,…

  Iain Kelly

  22/01/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Sunday Photo Fiction

  clown, creative writing, dream, dreams, fear, Fiction, Flash Fiction, hotel, humor, humour, literature, nightmare, rat, scared, Short Story, snake, story, Sunday Photo Fiction, Writing

• BEST LAID PLANS

  Yvegeny Shiskin sat in the imposing corridor. He dabbed his forehead to remove sweat and adjusted his spectacles. The chief had been with the President for an hour. Yvegeny wondered how his report was being received. He nervously fingered his copy of it. His entire life’s work. Now the time had come. The years of…

  Iain Kelly

  21/01/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

  Agents, America, cold war, creative writing, donald trump, espionage, Fiction, Flash Fiction, KGB, literature, Moscow, Putin, Red Square, Russia, Short Story, spy, spycraft, story, What Pegman Saw, Writing