Tag: time

• SPINSTER

  There was no thread left, but she kept the wheel spinning. They had all left her. Left her traditional values. They told her to embrace modern life. She didn’t want to. When Cassandra told her about her girlfriend, she’d tried to accept it. When Cassandra told her they were expecting a child, she smiled through…

  Iain Kelly

  06/07/2022

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  abortion, creative writing, daughter, family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gay, lesbian, LGBTQ+, literature, mother, needle, relationship, religion, Short Story, spinster, story, thread, time, traditional, values, Writing, writing prompt

• THE TROUBLE WITH CHOICES

  

  Life’s all about choices. Take diet: instead of the full fat burger, choose the veggie burger. Instead of wine, water. Instead of chocolate, carrot and dip. Everything in moderation. Take exercise: instead of sitting in front of the television, choose getting out for a walk or a run. Take politics: instead of supporting the rich…

  Iain Kelly

  14/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, choices, creative writing, diet, enforced, exercise, Fiction, Flash Fiction, hate, instead, left, literature, mask, pandemic, political, right, rights, scary, Short Story, speech, story, time, Writing, writing prompt

• OPERATION LOCKDOWN

  

  He tried not to tense. Stay relaxed, but focussed. He was sweating in the warm sun, the droplets of moisture ran into his eyes. He blinked them away and carried on. Almost there. He skilfully removed the bone, held between the small tweezers, from the opening in the arm and when he drew the instrument…

  Iain Kelly

  11/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, agnes, alarm, Archie, batteries, board game, boredom, comedy, competition, competitive, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, game, humor, humour, literature, lockdown, obssession, operation, Short Story, spare, story, time, tweezers, Writing, writing prompt

• PARADOX

  

  Two new hips and knees. A hair transplant. New skin. A bionic liver. A new kidney. My third heart. I went through the list in my head. Immortality came at a cost. There wasn’t much of my original body left, the one I was born with. But looked the same as I did when I…

  Iain Kelly

  20/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, age, brain, catch-22, creative writing, experience, fear, feelings, Fiction, Flash Fiction, heart, immortality, life, literature, medical, memory, mortality, paradox, parts, replace, ship, Short Story, story, surgery, time, transplant, whole, Writing, writing prompt

• TIME

  

  Too old. Her back was killing her. She straightened up and stretched. This would be the last year. Next summer she would need to get some help in, or let the garden grow wild. Maybe that was the answer. Time to give up trying to control everything. Time to just go with whatever will be,…

  Iain Kelly

  09/10/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Three Things Challenge

  #threethingschallenge, 3TC, aging, back, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flower, flowers, garden, gardener, life, literature, natural, Nature, old, Short Story, story, strain, stress, Three Things Challenge, time, Woman, Writing, writing prompt