Tag: strain

• TIME

  

  Too old. Her back was killing her. She straightened up and stretched. This would be the last year. Next summer she would need to get some help in, or let the garden grow wild. Maybe that was the answer. Time to give up trying to control everything. Time to just go with whatever will be,…

  Iain Kelly

  09/10/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Three Things Challenge

  #threethingschallenge, 3TC, aging, back, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flower, flowers, garden, gardener, life, literature, natural, Nature, old, Short Story, story, strain, stress, Three Things Challenge, time, Woman, Writing, writing prompt

• DARK CLOUDS

  

  One final effort and he would make it to the ridge that ran along the top of the mountain. His mind had been so clear that morning, filled with only the thought of scaling the hill. But as he had ascended, the worries of his life had crept in again. The company was going under.…

  Iain Kelly

  01/03/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

  #writephoto, Clouds, company, coping, creative writing, dark, dark thoughts, depression, family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, hill, life, literature, mental illness, mood, mountain, pressure, scenery, Short Story, story, strain, stress, suicide, sun, Thursday Photo Prompt, Writing, writing prompt