Tag: vietnam

• EASTERN ROMANCE

  ‘Authentic Chinese Cuisine’ screamed the signs for the tourists. Which struck her as odd since they were in Ho Chi Minh City and China was 2,000km north. Still, it looked good. Pierce wasn’t convinced. ‘Hygiene standards!’ he puffed, wiping sweat from his brow with his handkerchief. She remembered the debonair gentleman who had swept her…

  Iain Kelly

  24/08/2022

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  adventure, bovary, creative writing, darcy, debonair, Far East, Fiction, Flash Fiction, food, Friday Fictioneers, heathcliff, hygiene, literature, market, Romance, Short Story, story, tourists, vietnam, Writing, writing prompt

• THE BURNING MONK

  

  Sayadaw Ashin Nanda bowed his head. A steady stream of vehicles passed by. Drivers stared at the monk. Fingering his prayer beads, he asked for answers. The noise of the city faded into the background. He tried to recall what the scene would have looked like fifty years ago. *** Thích Quảng Đức, the Vietnamese…

  Iain Kelly

  23/10/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Literature, Short Story

  buddhist, creative writing, Fiction, fire, flame, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, God, literature, monk, muslim, myanmar, persecution, politics, prayers, protest, religion, rohingya, saigon, self-immolation, Short Story, south vietnam, story, Thích Quảng Đức, the burning monk, vietnam, vietnam war, war, Writing, writing prompt

• AMERICAN BLUES

  

  Having been named after the 32nd and 26th Presidents of the United States of America, Franklin Theodore McDairmid had not lived up to his father’s expectations. Only his father called him Franklin, his mother and grandparents always called him Frank, at school he was Frankie, at college Frankie T. or Frankie T. McD, around the…

  Iain Kelly

  04/11/2016

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  1970s, America, baseball, blues, brooklyn, chicago, drama, Fiction, history, house of blues, michigan avenue, nixon, president, president of the united states of america, sears tower, Short Story, story, suicide, tribune, uss spruance, vietnam, wallis tower, watergate, wrigley building