Tag: suicide

• 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

  #amwriting, #writephoto, affair, alone, creative writing, depression, drowning, Fiction, Flash Fiction, free verse, glisten, listen, literature, marriage, over, poet, poetry, relationship, rhyme, sand, sea, separation, Short Story, story, suicide, sun, Thursday Photo Prompt, verse, water, waves, Writing, writing prompt

• TORRENT OF ABUSE

  

  The insults poured from their mouths like dark water cascading in a torrent, tumbling on top of him and those he loved. The more they beat him down, the more determined he was to stand up. In the end, like the rocks worn down by years of abuse from a waterfall, he could take the […]

  Iain Kelly

  05/03/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, Abuse, bomb, bully, creative writing, destiny, Fiction, Flash Fiction, force, fundamentalism, hate, literature, racism, radical, river, Short Story, speech, story, suicide, Thursday Photo Prompt, tolerate, torrent, waterfall, world, Writing, writing prompt

• A MURMUR

  

  He watched the black mass moving through the dawn sky. Backlit by the sun’s orange-yellow glow, the sweeping and swooping birds danced in uniformity. It was, he mused, a stunning example of the beauty that could be found in the world. But not for him. For him, beauty in life had ended. There was only […]

  Iain Kelly

  19/09/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

  #writephoto, alzheimers, creative writing, Death, echo, ending, family, Farm, Fiction, field, Flash Fiction, life, literature, medical, mercy, murmur, murmuration, old age, rifle, senile, Short Story, starlings, story, suicide, sunrise, Thursday Photo Prompt, Writing, writing prompt

• MIRROR, MIRROR

  

  Can you hold up a mirror to yourself and say that you are entirely innocent? That you are not in some way to blame? That was the thought that had brought Dominic out onto the street. He hadn’t been the one shouting, taunting, calling her the names: ‘Fatty’, ‘Chunk’, ‘Porky.’ He hadn’t laughed while watching […]

  Iain Kelly

  22/08/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

  #writephoto, a justified state, amazon, blame, book, bullying, complicit, creative writing, Death, drowning, fat shaming, Fiction, Flash Fiction, kindle, launch, literature, mirror, novel, paperback, pond, Publishing, reflect, reflection, release, Short Story, state of denial, story, suicide, the state trilogy, Thursday Photo Prompt, water, Writing, writing prompt

• THEIR TRANQUIL PLACE

  

  Their own quiet spot: the water brown from the muddy bed; the beach a mixture of sand and silt; the tree that grew out horizontally from the water’s edge before curving up towards the heavens. It was here they had first stolen away together, away from the group of friends hanging around the park in […]

  Iain Kelly

  07/03/2019

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

  #writephoto, creative writing, Death, desire, Fiction, Flash Fiction, gay, hidden, homophobia, homosexual, kiss, LGBT, literature, love, persecution, relationship, Romance, sexual, shame, Short Story, society, story, suicide, Thursday Photo Prompt, tranquil, Writing, writing prompt