Tag: tweet

• EVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK

  

  ‘How about this… Americans harnessed electricity,…’ ‘Yes, very good, Mr. President.’ ‘…we split the atom…’ ‘Well, sir, technically that was a New Zealander.’ ‘…we gave the world the telephone…’ ‘That was a Scotsman, Sir’ ‘…and the internet…’ ‘Tim Berners-Lee was an Englishman working in Switzerland.’ ‘…we settled the Wild West…’ ‘Maybe don’t highlight our record…

  Iain Kelly

  08/07/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  alexander graham bell, America, astronaut, comedy, creative writing, drabble, electricity, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, history, humor, humour, internet, lie, literature, mars, moon, scottish, Short Story, simplification, story, telephone, tim berners-lee, trump, tweet, untrue, Wild West, world war, Writing, writing prompt

• CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS

  

  Rodney asked him to watch his pretzel cart while he took a break. It was another humid night. Larry sat on the wall and rested his weary feet. He looked up at the statue with the Rockefeller building behind it. A huge white face with white hands covering the eyes. Ain’t that the truth, Larry…

  Iain Kelly

  17/07/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  America, art, birth, black, color, country, creative writing, declaration of independence, drabble, emigrant, equality, example, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, immigrant, language, life, literature, people of colour, politics, president, racism, rockefeller, Short Story, statue, story, trump, tweet, unalienable, Writing, writing prompt