Tag: suffering

• THE RETURN

  

  ‘She’s back.’ The word went out. Of course, she’d never really been away. She had always been there, in our hearts and in our minds and in everything we thought and did. The last few years had been tough. Many had suffered. We clung on to the hope that she would one day return to…

  Iain Kelly

  21/01/2021

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• ALL GONE

  

  They haven’t gone, the Christmas Angels.They’re hiding from me.Waiting. In the shadows.Ready to step out into the twinkling lights.Reflecting in the dirty puddles.Shimmering and blurred.Walking along the empty streets.The closed shops, the dead cafés.An open door.Please sir, can you help me?An inviting arm around my shoulder.The warmth of the hallway.Shut out the cold Eve.His smiling…

  Iain Kelly

  23/12/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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