Tag: spread

• CHOICE

  

  At first glance the choice was simple. Stay on this bank of the river and be safe, but alone. Or cross the river and be with his family, but face the danger of being infected by the virus. The official order was no one was allowed to enter the quarantined island. The traffickers had quickly…

  Iain Kelly

  06/02/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, care, children, choice, coronovirus, creative writing, decision, family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, illness, infection, island, literature, Plague, quarantine, river, Short Story, spread, stepping, stones, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, virus, wife, Writing, writing prompt

• QUARANTINE

  

  They nicknamed it ‘Christmas Island’ after the notorious isle off the coast of Australia that had been used to quarantine people centuries ago. An area the size of Wyoming, shrouded in winter. No one knew how long the lockdown would last. Food and medicine parcels were parachuted in, but supplies were dwindling. Paranoia abounded. A…

  Iain Kelly

  29/01/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  christmas island, Cold, creative writing, drabble, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flu, food, Friday Fictioneers, influenza, literature, pandemic, panic, paranoia, quarantine, Short Story, snow, spread, story, supplies, virus, water, winter, Writing, writing prompt