Tag: skin

• SURVIVAL

  

  I tried not to vomit as I peeled the fetid sock away from my foot. It came off in tattered patches, stuck to the putrid flesh underneath. The pain was excruciating. I had to look. It wasn’t my foot any longer. I didn’t recognise it. It was just a lump of red-purple meat. There were…

  Iain Kelly

  30/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, action, alien, Bones, creative writing, Death, drama, earth, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flesh, foot, hill, human, hunt, injury, invasion, kill, literature, mountain, putrid, sci-fi, science fiction, sentinel, Short Story, skin, Species, story, survival, thriller, Writing, writing prompt

• NEMESIS AND THE BEAUTY QUEEN

  

  She checked behind her. The dilapidated shack stood there. She looked back at the mirror. The shack was reflected in it. The mirror seemed to work as a mirror should. She bent down and peered into, her breath clouded the smooth surface, but still the mirror did not show her reflection. She pinched herself, poked…

  Iain Kelly

  29/08/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  appearance, ardour, beauty, beauty queen, celebrity, creative writing, drabble, emotional, fantasy, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Gods, greek, internal, literature, magical, mirror, myth, narcissus, nemesis, refelction, Short Story, skin, story, ugly, vain, vanity, Writing, writing prompt