Tag: world war 2

• W IS FOR WARSAW, POLAND

  A SCENE OF DIALOGUE FROM WAR-TORN WARSAW 18th April 1943; The Jewish Ghetto, Warsaw, Poland Jakub, Benjamin and Stefan sit around a table, cramped in the small room, with no lighting. ‘What do we do, let them take us? Then we are as good as dead already.’ ‘If we resist they will kill us where…

  Iain Kelly

  26/04/2018

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• D IS FOR DRESDEN, GERMANY

  A STORY OF DÉTENTE IN DRESDEN, GERMANY Alan Smith stood among the locals of Dresden in the reconstructed Neumarkt, looking with the crowd towards the Frauenkirche with its wondrous dome topped by a golden cross gleaming in the dusk sky.  The dignitaries were filing into the building, German mainly but also religious leaders from far…

  Iain Kelly

  04/04/2018

  A TO Z CHALLENGE, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• A NOS MORTS

  

  The bugle sounded, the flag was lowered. Feet shuffled on gravel. The silence was broken by the diesel engine of a barge. They didn’t close the canal anymore. Some her mother had nursed back to full health, some never recovered. One her mother married. Twenty years later she was alongside her mother as men repeated…

  Iain Kelly

  07/03/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• THE WOLF’S LAIR

  

  Kaufmann swept the final bundle of wood shavings into the wheelbarrow and stretched his aching back. ‘Hör nicht auf,’ the supervisor yelled at him. ‘Schnell, schnell.’ Exhausted, Kaufmann put the broom and spade into the barrow and took up the handles. He waddled as quickly as his skinny frame could manage, clearing the road just…

  Iain Kelly

  04/02/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Sunday Photo Fiction

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• HOLD ON TO THE LIGHT

  

  He should’ve gotten on the train. He could’ve been in the countryside with his sister. But he didn’t want to leave Mother in the city. Not with the air raids and bombs falling. Then he had gotten lost trying to get home from the station. The old lady found him and took him to her…

  Iain Kelly

  29/01/2018

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

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