Tag: terminal

• GET WELL SOON

  The balloon, much like herself, was sagged and deflated. The flowers had started to curl up and wilt. A lovely gesture when she had started feeling low, their garish, fading colours mocked her now. She looks at the letter once more, just to be sure. She had known it, even when she had smiled at […]

  Iain Kelly

  15/06/2022

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  balloon, cancer, creative writing, Death, diagnosis, end, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flowers, Friday Fictioneers, get well soon, life, literature, Short Story, story, terminal, treatment, Writing, writing prompt

• DELAYED

  

  They had been waiting for three hours in the airport terminal. The departure boards were full of yellow-highlighted rectangles reading ‘DELAYED.’ The fog looked thicker than ever out the window. The children were climbing on the seats again. ‘Joe get down from there and let go of your sister,’ Claire said. The kids ignored her. Pete […]

  Iain Kelly

  20/02/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  airplane, airport, bomb, cancelled, creative writing, delayed, drama, family, fate, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, flight, literature, lucky escape, plane, Short Story, story, terminal, terrorism, terrorist, Writing