Tag: work

• NO TROUBLE AT ALL

  Alongside temperature checks every time I enter the building, my work are introducing rapid flow Covid-19 testing next week for all staff that have to be in the building. Everyone will also get a proximity alarm that will go off if someone is closer than 2 metres away. The kids are at home and we’ve…

  Iain Kelly

  15/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Non-fiction, Short Story

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• MR. VORACIOUS

  He decided: from now on, whatever it was, he was going to do it voraciously. That’s what they said about all these successful people: Musk and Jobs and Bezos, they were obsessives and workaholics. Work hard, play hard. That was how to get ahead. So he would work longer hours and stop taking breaks and…

  Iain Kelly

  04/12/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• 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

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• THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

  

  He was sweating. His back ached. His arms couldn’t carry the heavy parcel much further along the pedestrianised street. 4300, 4301, 4302… Almost there. He didn’t think about the walk back to the start of the street that awaited. His car was parked outside house No.1. 4376. He had made it. He dropped the parcel…

  Iain Kelly

  15/07/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  comedy, creative writing, delivery, drabble, effort, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, gate, humor, humour, job, literature, online, parcel, pedestrianised, postman, redelivery, shopping, Short Story, story, street, twice, walk, work, Writing, writing prompt

• THE STAKEOUT

  

  He ate the last crumbs, rolled up the wrapper and tossed it in the back. Still hungry. Should’ve stopped at a store for provisions on the way. Across the street nothing happened. He stared at the unmoving windows and door. How long had it been? Three hours. Another five before the night shift took over.…

  Iain Kelly

  03/06/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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