Tag: solar system

• A GLIMMER IN THE DARKNESS

  

  I like to sit up here and watch the dawn. That first flicker, the unsteady fragile glint of sunlight peaking over the horizon. It means that a hundred and fifty million kilometres away, the searing ball of gas is still glowing, emanating warmth and light towards us. One day someone may sit in my place…

  Iain Kelly

  18/10/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

  #writephoto, apocalypse, creative writing, darkness, dawn, earth, end, end of days, Fiction, Flash Fiction, galaxy, glimmer, Humanity, life, literature, mountain, peace, rejoice, Short Story, solar system, story, sun, sunrise, sunset, thought, thoughtful, Thursday Photo Prompt, universe, Writing, writing prompt

• FORCES OF ATTRACTION

  Always gazing up at the stars, that was Charlie’s problem, dreaming about particles, planets and the cosmos, absorbed in studying the gravitational pull of black holes and their theoretical evaporation. Larry stamped his feet, shivering in the cold air, watching Charlie adjust the camera pointing up at the clear night sky. ‘Seriously, this is how you…

  Iain Kelly

  14/03/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  black holes, camera, cosmology, cosmos, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gravitational pull, gravity, hawking radiation, literature, love, passion, Romance, science, Short Story, sky, solar system, Space, star gazing, stars, stephen hawking, story, universe, wonder, Writing, writing prompt