Tag: turkey

• CHRISTMAS IN SASKATCHEWAN

  

  Heavy snow from the north was sweeping in, the wind was scooping it up and swirling it into a blizzard. He reached the door and was blown inside, a flurry of white accompanying him indoors. The heat thawed him. He shook off his heavy jacket and slipped out of his boots. He put the extra…

  Iain Kelly

  07/12/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

  blizzard, canada, christmas, cosy, creative writing, dickens, dinner, festive, Fiction, fire, Flash Fiction, holidays, literature, merry, north, remote, saskatchewan, shack, Short Story, snow, story, turkey, warm, What Pegman Saw, Writing, writing prompt

• N IS FOR NESSEBAR, BULGARIA

  A STORY OF SEARCHING FOR NIRVANA IN NESSEBAR, BULGARIA The Pearl of the Black Sea. Here was somewhere where she could forget about all the troubles in the world, and all the troubles in her world too. This was about as far east as she could go in the European Union. Across the Black Sea,…

  Iain Kelly

  16/04/2018

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, AtoZchallenge, black sea, bulgaria, chance, church, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, laws, lesbian, LGBT, literature, love, lust, nessebar, nirvana, old town, pearl, religion, resort, rights, Romance, Short Story, story, turkey, ukraine, Writing, writing prompt

• F IS FOR FAMAGUSTA, CYPRUS

  A STORY OF FOLLY IN FAMAGUSTA, CYPRUS ‘Not even Turkish Cypriots are allowed in,’ my guide Ferhat tells me as we peer through the barbed wire. Beyond lies a golden beach, straight out of a tourist board advert with the deep blue Mediterranean lapping gently on the shore. Look closer though and things don’t look…

  Iain Kelly

  06/04/2018

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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