Tag: university

• THE DANCE

  

  ‘Yer gonna be late,’ his ma shouted at him from the kitchen. ‘Ahm jist tryin’ tae get masel’ lookin’ right, ma,’ he called back. ‘It’s too late fer that, son,’ she replied, ‘about fifteen years too late.’ She didn’t understand, this was the night he would ask Justine. He should have done it before now.…

  Iain Kelly

  14/05/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, ambition, creative writing, crush, dance, domestic, drama, dream, Fiction, Flash Fiction, future, Glasgow, literature, love, miner, mining, prom, Romance, scotland, Short Story, story, teenager, Thursday Photo Prompt, trapped, university, Writing, writing prompt, young love, youth

• THE PROPOSAL

  

  They had been friends since the first day of school. Archie knew he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. Tomorrow he left for University, leaving home and starting a new life in a new city. He knew Agnes was staying at home with her parents. Would she wait for him to…

  Iain Kelly

  22/11/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Writing

  agnes, Archie, back story, beginning, Carrot Ranch, cinema, creative writing, engagement, Fiction, Flash Fiction, literature, love, marriage, proposal, ring, Romance, school, Short Story, story, teenage, university, Writing, writing prompt

• J IS FOR JYVÄSKYLÄ, FINLAND

  

  A STORY OF JEOPARDY IN JYVÄSKYLÄ Jyväskylä is the Athens of Finland, so they say, due to its role as an educational centre. It was the name given to it in the The Kalevala, the epic poem of collected folk lore and songs by Elias Lönnrot that is considered the national epic of Finland. Juriitta was…

  Iain Kelly

  11/04/2018

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

  a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, AtoZchallenge, brexit, cold war, creative writing, cyberspace, cyberwar, defence, europe, european union, Fiction, finland, Flash Fiction, hacking, innocent, jeopardy, Jyväskylä, kalevala, KGB, literature, malware, noir, programming, Putin, Russia, security, Short Story, soviet union, spy, story, the great game, university, Writing, writing prompt