Tag: south america

• AFTERMATH

  

  Pale skin made her standout. Too many heads turned in her direction. Assassinations make people suspicious. Years of civil war did that to a country. The heat was heavy and oppressive. The hotel, a ramshackle construction of tin roofs and wooden struts, teetering on collapse. The receptionist, red lips and false eyelashes, eyed her as…

  Iain Kelly

  07/02/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• AMAZONIA

  5th July 1592 We continue to follow De Orellana. The river seems to be endless. It has been seven months since we set out. Today we were attacked by a group of savages. Without a common language took us for enemies. They hurled sharpened rocks as we fled back to the boat. It was not the men that…

  Iain Kelly

  25/02/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

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