Tag: war

• REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME

  

  I’m breaking my own rule for once and writing something overtly political: an opinion piece, and it’s just my opinion, so feel free to disagree. Regardless of the eventual outcome of the US Presidential election, more Americans have voted for Donald Trump in 2020 than they did in 2016. Let that sink in. Half of…

  Iain Kelly

  04/11/2020

  #fowc, Commentary, Non-fiction, Writing

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• DICTATOR

  

  ‘What will pacify them?’ ‘Nothing other than your resignation, and even then.’ She left the sentence hanging. ‘What do you mean? They want me dead?’ ‘A lot of them have lost loved ones, they want to see equal justice.’ ‘I did it for them,’ he roared. ‘To protect them. To protect our country.’ He slumped…

  Iain Kelly

  02/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• CROSS OR CRESCENT

  

  A cross or a crescent, why did it matter? The blood was always red, it ran the same no matter where they sent her. The victims needed the same things no matter what banner flew over their camps. Some chose to find offence in the cross, some in the crescent. All either symbolised was their…

  Iain Kelly

  20/08/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• WORN

  

  Back stooped, legs bowed. Face weathered and scored with lines, each one telling a story of a long life. She has lived through a pandemic, the third Great War, the rise of the machines. Still she walks on, unbowed. Her family is long gone: her true love long ago when the disease caught him; her…

  Iain Kelly

  30/07/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• VISTA OF WAR

  

  Their camp was just outside the old boundary wall of the city, in a wooded area on the crest of a hill that overlooked the valley below. Central City sprawled out before them as far as they could see. The secluded camp sat in a clearing between six oak trees. Branches from the trees stretched…

  Iain Kelly

  09/07/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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