Tag: story

• GATHERING AT THE CAFE ROUGE

  

  Typical. Hours of practice on facial proportions, angles and shadows wasted. She’d spent so long getting the nose and mouth just right on each person in the scene. She sighed and mixed the colours. Plenty of medical light blue for most. A couple of brighter hues for the more imaginative people. A small rectangle added…

  Iain Kelly

  22/07/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• GLISTENING WAVES

  

  ‘You never listen.’ Glisten. The sun dancing on the water. ‘You’re never there.’ Dare. The cold water round his ankles. ‘I’ve been having an affair.’ Stare. A line of rocks breaking the water in the distance. ‘The children will stay with me.’ Free. His body weightless in the water. ‘I want you out.’ Doubt. Arms…

  Iain Kelly

  16/07/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

  

  He was sweating. His back ached. His arms couldn’t carry the heavy parcel much further along the pedestrianised street. 4300, 4301, 4302… Almost there. He didn’t think about the walk back to the start of the street that awaited. His car was parked outside house No.1. 4376. He had made it. He dropped the parcel…

  Iain Kelly

  15/07/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• VISTA OF WAR

  

  Their camp was just outside the old boundary wall of the city, in a wooded area on the crest of a hill that overlooked the valley below. Central City sprawled out before them as far as they could see. The secluded camp sat in a clearing between six oak trees. Branches from the trees stretched…

  Iain Kelly

  09/07/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK

  

  ‘How about this… Americans harnessed electricity,…’ ‘Yes, very good, Mr. President.’ ‘…we split the atom…’ ‘Well, sir, technically that was a New Zealander.’ ‘…we gave the world the telephone…’ ‘That was a Scotsman, Sir’ ‘…and the internet…’ ‘Tim Berners-Lee was an Englishman working in Switzerland.’ ‘…we settled the Wild West…’ ‘Maybe don’t highlight our record…

  Iain Kelly

  08/07/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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