Tag: Short Story

• HEAVENS ABOVE!

  

  ‘There it is! The portal! We are saved!’ ‘It’s not a portal, it’s a gap in the clouds.’ ‘We haven’t seen a gap in the clouds for three years. It must be a sign from above!’ ‘From who exactly?’ ‘Why, from our saviour of course. Don’t you believe?!’ ‘After the plagues, the earthquakes, the drought,…

  Iain Kelly

  12/03/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, alien, apocalypse, cloud, comedy, creative writing, dark, disaster, drought, earthquake, Extinction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, floods, God, heaven, humor, humour, hurricane, lambent, light, literature, Plague, religion, Short Story, sky, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, Writing, writing prompt

• THE SOURCE

  

  It started with the dead fish floating in the river. Then the cows in the fields started to get sick and the dogs started acting wild. Then a doctor at the local hospital started noticing the cancers. Something wasn’t right. It was in the water. The water that they washed in, brushed their teeth with,…

  Iain Kelly

  11/03/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  agency, business, cancer, chemical, company, conspiracy, corporation, cover up, creative writing, Death, drabble, drinking, environment, factory, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, industry, literature, poison, pollution, protection, Short Story, source, story, toxic, water, Writing, writing prompt

• TORRENT OF ABUSE

  

  The insults poured from their mouths like dark water cascading in a torrent, tumbling on top of him and those he loved. The more they beat him down, the more determined he was to stand up. In the end, like the rocks worn down by years of abuse from a waterfall, he could take the…

  Iain Kelly

  05/03/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, Abuse, bomb, bully, creative writing, destiny, Fiction, Flash Fiction, force, fundamentalism, hate, literature, racism, radical, river, Short Story, speech, story, suicide, Thursday Photo Prompt, tolerate, torrent, waterfall, world, Writing, writing prompt

• SUPPLY AND DEMAND

  

  ‘Why the empty shelves?’ ‘I’m reorganising.’ ‘No more processed food?’ ‘Only fruit and vegetables.’ ‘Meat?’ ‘No.’ ‘Chocolate?’ ‘No.’ ‘Sweets?’ ‘No. There is no longer the demand for these things.’ ‘The health drive?’ ‘Tackling obesity.’ ‘I see, uh, you wouldn’t happen to know where I could get my hands a few treats, do you?’ ‘I can’t…

  Iain Kelly

  04/03/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  black market, business, capitalism, chocolate, creative writing, crisis, deal, demand, diet, drabble, ebook, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, fruit, health, literature, meat, money, natural, obesity, opportunity, read an ebook, sale, Short Story, smashwords, story, sugar, supply, sweets, under the counter, vegan, vegetable, Writing, writing prompt

• IT HAPPENS TO US ALL

  

  He stood like a statue, frozen on the spot. He went back over all the decisions that had led him to this moment, raking through his memory for the answer that would not reveal itself through the fog. He reached out but could not grasp the key information he had forgotten. He tried to not…

  Iain Kelly

  27/02/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, aim, all, comedy, creative writing, everyday, Fiction, Flash Fiction, forget, forgetful, human, humor, humour, lapse, literature, memory, mind, relate, Short Story, story, task, Thursday Photo Prompt, Writing, writing prompt