Tag: sidewalk

• JUST VISITING

  

  ‘What is he doing?’ ‘I have no idea.’ ‘He’s just standing there.’ A small group of onlookers stopped on the sidewalk to stare at the man standing in the middle of the intersection. ‘Did he just come out of the manhole cover?’ ‘Should we ask if he needs help?’ The lights changed. Yellow cabs swerved […]

  Iain Kelly

  01/07/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  America, cover, creative writing, detective, drabble, drama, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, intersection, lights, literature, maintenance, manhole, mystery, new york, road, Short Story, sidewalk, story, stranger, time travel, traffic, trench coat, trilby, Writing, writing prompt

• LEMMINGS

  

  There were six of them now. Jimmy had been the first. He had been strolling along until he came upon the sign: ‘Sidewalk Closed – Please Use Other Side.’ The sidewalk appeared to be passable, but the sign told him otherwise. Jimmy had waited for a break in the traffic. It was an eight-lane highway. […]

  Iain Kelly

  06/08/2017

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

  Cars, comedy, creative writing, crossing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, human behaviour, humor, humour, lemmings, literature, pavement, pedestrian, sega mega drive, Short Story, sidewalk, sign, sink hole, story, Sunday Photo Fiction, traffic, Writing, writing prompt