Tag: war

• DEAD ROSES

  

  Dead roses in winter, withered and defeated. The Grand Armée reduced to an icy hell. The villages they entered had nothing to offer. They had stripped them bare of what little they had on their way to Moscow. Starving, frost-bitten and dog-tired, he stumbled on. To drop now meant certain death. No comrade would burden…

  Iain Kelly

  24/02/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• THE SNITCH

  ‘All you have to do is tell them exactly what I told you.’ It was easy for him to say. I was a snitch, everyone knew I was a snitch, that’s why they were using me, but I liked to think I was an honest snitch. I didn’t tell the detective anything that wasn’t true.…

  Iain Kelly

  22/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• MODERN WARFARE

  This was war. Storm the capital. Tear down the barricades. Release the hounds of hell. This was his crucible. He would destroy them. Save the country and his people. He was armed and dangerous and ready. He waited for the signal. The signal to war. The message blipped up onscreen: DeathDestroyer23452 has signed in. ‘Yo,…

  Iain Kelly

  09/01/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

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• THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS

  A body of work. That’s all I have at the end. All of it in the past. What will the future hold? I gave everything, at the expense of family and friends and love and finally, life. All to achieve the goal. The goal set by my leader. Did I do it for my country?…

  Iain Kelly

  07/12/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• ARMISTICE DAY, 1918

  

  ‘The decoration’s are a bit much, those candles’ll set the place on fire.’ ‘You hush. We can’t have him coming home to a dull house without some sort of celebration.’ ‘He won’t be back for days yet.’ ‘But we’ll be ready for him when he does come home.’ She stepped down and looked at the…

  Iain Kelly

  11/11/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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