Tag: Woman

• TIME

  

  Too old. Her back was killing her. She straightened up and stretched. This would be the last year. Next summer she would need to get some help in, or let the garden grow wild. Maybe that was the answer. Time to give up trying to control everything. Time to just go with whatever will be,…

  Iain Kelly

  09/10/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Three Things Challenge

  #threethingschallenge, 3TC, aging, back, creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, flower, flowers, garden, gardener, life, literature, natural, Nature, old, Short Story, story, strain, stress, Three Things Challenge, time, Woman, Writing, writing prompt

• A DAY IN A LIFE OF TOKENISM

  

  Tokens of his love left by way of an apology before he left last night to go back to his wife and children. She dumped the flowers in the bin. At her yoga as she tried to revive herself from too much wine the night before. She stuck to the back of the class and…

  Iain Kelly

  27/08/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, creative writing, discrimination, effort, everyday, Fiction, Flash Fiction, healthy, life, literature, pizza, relationship, Short Story, social, society, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, tokenism, tokens, wine, Woman, work, Writing, writing prompt, yoga, zoom

• THE PAINTED LADY

  

  He was drunk. He had to admit it. Not slightly inebriated or a bit tipsy, but flat out drunk. There would be trouble when he got home. In his mind he rehearsed the route he would take from the front door to the bedroom – probably via the bathroom – and the movements he would…

  Iain Kelly

  21/05/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, Alcohol, creative writing, dream, drunk, fall, fantasy, Fiction, Flash Fiction, ghost, lady, literature, Man, naked, night, nightmare, painted, pond, seduction, Short Story, story, temptation, Thursday Photo Prompt, water, Woman, Writing, writing prompt

• DAYBREAK

  

  The sun rose. The world went on. As if nothing had happened. As if everything was as it should have been. He found her in the nursery. Staring out the window. The sky was a fiery red. It tinged her tears. She gripped the unused blanket. This is a response to the #writephoto Prompt: Daybreak…

  Iain Kelly

  30/01/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #writephoto, birth, child, cot, creative writing, daybreak, Death, Fiction, Flash Fiction, grief, life, literature, loss, Man, miscarriage, nursery, parents, Short Story, sky, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, Woman, world, Writing, writing prompt

• CHAMBERMAID

  

  Typical politician. One night he stayed, left the place a mess. Still, that’s what she was paid for – get the room ready for the next guest. Only the Minimum Wage though. Suppose she should be thankful to him for upping that in the last budget. Useless though, the lot of them. And now, another…

  Iain Kelly

  30/10/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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