Tag: stall

• PETE’S MARKET STALL

  

  Pete was well known around the local area. No matter where he set up his market stall a crowd would gather. Pete could sell anything to anyone: air conditioning units, bike parts, chopsticks, fake tattoos, parking meters. When his stall illegally blocked a street, the police were called. They left with a packet of fudge, […]

  Iain Kelly

  12/05/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  business, comedy, commerce, competition, creative writing, disappeared, discount, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, humor, humour, literature, market, marquee, nonsense, sell, Short Story, stall, story, street, Writing, writing prompt

• ILL-GOTTEN GAINS

  

  Her Mum helped her bake the pastries using the rhubarb they had grown in their garden. Each had their own neat tray – rhubarb crumble, rhubarb tarts, rhubarb and toffee cake. She set up the stall at the corner of her street, waiting to capitalise on the Friday, end-of-week rush hour footfall. ‘Treat for the […]

  Iain Kelly

  02/10/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Three Things Challenge

  #threethingschallenge, 3TC, bake, business, cake, chocolate, comedy, creative writing, entrepreneur, Fiction, Flash Fiction, humor, humour, literature, pie, profit, rhubarb, sale, Short Story, skim, stall, story, sweets, Three Things Challenge, toffee, Writing, writing prompt

• SURROGATES

  

  Black and white images from the past. Not hers, someone else’s. The smiling portrait of a young woman, an elderly couple in front of their house, a grandfather, a brother and sister. A family, a historical document of a happy life. $1 for the basket. The seller had no idea who the people in the […]

  Iain Kelly

  09/10/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  Abuse, creative writing, drabble, dreams, family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, history, literature, market, nightmare, past, people, photographs, photos, Short Story, stall, story, strangers, surrogate, trauma, Writing, writing prompt