Tag: solitude

• THE NEW LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER

  

  The light glowed out of the fog as it turned. He knocked the door. An old man answered. ‘I was expecting Donnie.’ ‘He quit.’ He led him inside. ‘You need a tour?’ ‘I’ll figure it out.’ ‘Fair enough. See you in a month.’ The solitude enveloped him. Bliss. Lockdown had shown him the path to…

  Iain Kelly

  08/05/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

  alone, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, happiness, human, interaction, lighthouse, literature, lockdown, mystery, peace, people, Short Story, solitude, solitudinarian, Space, story, stranger, weekend writing prompt, Writing, writing prompt

• TROUBLE AHEAD

  

  Gonzalo threw his few belongings, the sharpened rocks and wooden tools he had made with his own hands, into the cave entrance and hurried inside the safety of his hidden cavern. Lying on the floor he peered back out through the opening. With his telescope, cobbled together with the glass frontispiece of his watch,  a…

  Iain Kelly

  15/03/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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