Tag: stress

• A NEW FREEDOM

  

  Invigorating was one way to describe it. Freedom. A weight lifted. A new start. The rest of his life starting now. He put the sledgehammer down. All that remained of his laptop, PC, tablet and smartphone was a mangled, twisted pile of metal and plastic. His past life, his identity – trashed. He turned his…

  Iain Kelly

  18/02/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, computer, contact, creative writing, fict, Flash Fiction, freedom, human, invigorating, laptop, letting go, life, literature, machine, modern, outside, pressure, short, smartphone, story, stress, tablet, trash, Writing, writing prompt

• 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

• THE TO-DO LIST

  

  Must get that loose top step fixed, she thought, as she walked up to her front door. As always she had to force the key in. Must get that lock seen to by a locksmith before it jams completely. She pushed the door open, seeing the boarded up diamond of mint-green. Must get that piece…

  Iain Kelly

  29/10/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  a justified state, comedy, creative writing, de-stress, decorate, door, evening, Fiction, fix, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, glass, house, housework, humor, humour, literature, lock, maintenance, novel, relax, Short Story, steps, story, stress, television, tidy, to do list, wine, Writing, writing prompt

• A MANHATTAN TALE

  

  Rockefeller, the Radio City Music Hall, one block over Fifth Avenue. All the famous sights of midtown Manhattan surround him as he trudges along the street. He’s not interested in any of them. Not this time. When he first arrived he had been taken in by the glitz of the place. Not anymore. Now he…

  Iain Kelly

  08/07/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Sunday Photo Fiction

  Alcohol, America, Bar, baseball, creative writing, drink, everyday, fable, Fiction, fifth avenue, Flash Fiction, literature, manhattan, modern, new york, radio city, rockefeller, Short Story, st patricks cathedral, story, streets, stress, Sunday Photo Fiction, tourists, walking, weekend, work, working man, Writing, writing prompt

• SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR

  

  The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was right there. But everytime she tried to grab it, something blocked her, like a thin mesh she couldn’t penetrate, dulling her view of the world. She would fall back and begin the long journey again, reaching up through the fog to the light. A…

  Iain Kelly

  13/06/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  anxiety, awareness, colour, creative writing, depression, disease, dull, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, grey, health, literature, medication, mental health, mental illness, mesh, metaphor, Short Story, stigma, story, stress, wellbeing, Writing, writing prompt