Tag: skim

• ILL-GOTTEN GAINS

  

  Her Mum helped her bake the pastries using the rhubarb they had grown in their garden. Each had their own neat tray – rhubarb crumble, rhubarb tarts, rhubarb and toffee cake. She set up the stall at the corner of her street, waiting to capitalise on the Friday, end-of-week rush hour footfall. ‘Treat for the…

  Iain Kelly

  02/10/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Three Things Challenge

  #threethingschallenge, 3TC, bake, business, cake, chocolate, comedy, creative writing, entrepreneur, Fiction, Flash Fiction, humor, humour, literature, pie, profit, rhubarb, sale, Short Story, skim, stall, story, sweets, Three Things Challenge, toffee, Writing, writing prompt

• IN A MANILA MARKET

  

  All kinds of strap shoes hang in rows. Black, red, white, tan. Thoughts coalesce. Her shoes on the bedroom closet. Shoes for every occasion. Imelda Marcos-scale collection. He burned them all. The clothes too. The closet, the bedroom, the house. All up in flames. It had to look real. They found the charred remains. They…

  Iain Kelly

  24/09/2018

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

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