Tag: survive

• PROVIDENCE

  

  He was taken aback, seeing it suspended from the ceiling among the other examples of World War II fighters. The aeroplane had been dredged up from the English Channel, where it had sat undisturbed on the sea bed for forty years. The bullet holes that had ripped open the fuselage and destroyed the engine had…

  Iain Kelly

  14/05/2018

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

  aeronautics, aeroplane, air corps, american, channel, creative writing, Death, ditching, dogfight, eject, enemy, english, fate, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, flight, german, literature, museum, museum of flight, parachute, providence, Short Story, story, survive, u.s. army, vageries, war, world war 2, Writing, writing prompt

• GRANDPA’S LUCKY SHOES

  

  The black leather gleamed. It had taken a lot of scrubbing and polishing to restore them to this state. The nest of spiders in the toe of the right shoe was a nasty surprise. They slipped onto the withered feet with ease. ‘Why the old shoes?’ the undertaker’s assistant asked. ‘Family request. Apparently they were…

  Iain Kelly

  20/09/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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