Tag: suspense

• A JUSTIFIED STATE – BOOK LAUNCH

  My first novel – ‘A Justified State’ – is now available to buy! ‘A Justified State’ is a thriller set in an imagined city of the future. The State is ruled by the socially reformist Central Party Alliance. Poverty and homelessness have been eradicated, but overpopulation, an energy crisis and an ongoing overseas war are threatening […]

  Iain Kelly

  03/11/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, novel, Publishing

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• SANCTUARY

  

  He cowered in the shadows. Outside he could hear the screams and the howling. The others had left him. They promised to return by nightfall. Until then he was on his own. Footsteps pounded past the opening. He held his breath until they faded away. How long did he have left? How long before they […]

  Iain Kelly

  08/02/2018

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

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• SURVIVORS

  

  Billy sat on top of the hill looking down on the town where he had grown up. The filling station was the only building with lights on. From here it was as though nothing had changed. Two grey warships sat out at sea. Soon he would return to one of them and spend another few […]

  Iain Kelly

  22/11/2016

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  action, alien, dark, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Humanity, invasion, lights, literature, metaphor, night, science fiction, short, Short Story, story, sunset, survivors, suspense, thriller, warships

• HUNTED

  

  At the end of the secure tunnel the gate had been left open. Jess stood at the other end of the tunnel and tried to judge the distance. A hundred metres? She edged forward. Glancing up above the walls at the steel fencing, she sensed she was being watched. A sudden flurry outside – snarling, shrieking […]

  Iain Kelly

  26/10/2016

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  action, cliffhanger, creative writing, female, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gate, heroine, horror, hunted, literature, predators, sci-fi, science fiction, Short Story, survivors, suspense, tunnel