Tag: writing prompt

• 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

  #fowc, 1812, Cold, creative writing, Death, defeat, drama, eagle, europe, Fiction, flag, flag bearer, Flash Fiction, France, Friday Fictioneers, grand armee, history, literature, Moscow, napoleon, napoleonic wars, paris, retreat, Russia, Short Story, soldier, starvation, story, war, winter, Writing, writing prompt

• AFTER THE FIRST DATE

  How long before making the call? The next day – too desperate? Two days – too aloof? A week – too late? Always the same conundrum. Not this time. The following evening. Perfect. He dialled. ‘The number you have dialled has not been recognised.’ Written for the Weekend Writing Prompt, hosted by SammiScribbles. This week’s prompt…

  Iain Kelly

  20/02/2021

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, weekend writing prompt

  call, comedy, creative writing, date, dating, Fiction, first date, Flash Fiction, humor, humour, literature, love, lover, phone call, rejection, Romance, sammiscribbles, seeking, Short Story, spurned, story, weekend writing prompt, Writing, writing prompt

• A NEW FREEDOM

  Invigorating was one way to describe it. Freedom. A weight lifted. A new start. The rest of his life starting now. He put the sledgehammer down. All that remained of his laptop, PC, tablet and smartphone was a mangled, twisted pile of metal and plastic. His past life, his identity – trashed. He turned his…

  Iain Kelly

  18/02/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, computer, contact, creative writing, fict, Flash Fiction, freedom, human, invigorating, laptop, letting go, life, literature, machine, modern, outside, pressure, short, smartphone, story, stress, tablet, trash, Writing, writing prompt

• IRRECONCILABLE

  

  We had our differences. For most couples they would have been irreconcilable, but we always muddled through. It’s all about compromise. Sure, his job kept him busy, away from home a lot. Maybe that helped. We weren’t living under each other’s feet for forty years. Then I found out it wasn’t his job that kept…

  Iain Kelly

  17/02/2021

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

  #fowc, address, adultery, ashes, bigamy, comedy, compromise, creative writing, dark, Death, differences, family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, humor, humour, husband, irreconcilable, kill, literature, marriage, murder, post, postal, remains, Short Story, story, wife, work, Writing, writing prompt

• DEEPER MEANING

  

  ‘I’m worried for your welfare!’ she shouted up to him, trying to hide her genuine fear. ‘I’ll be fine.’ He had come this far, he wasn’t going to turn back now and chicken out in front of everyone. A bet was a bet. He stood in just his pants and looked down at the black…

  Iain Kelly

  11/02/2021

  #fowc, #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, #writephoto, air, bet, brave, breath, creative writing, deeper, dive, fear, Fiction, Flash Fiction, jump, literature, love, peer, pool, pressure, relationship, rescue, rock, Short Story, story, swim, water, welfare, Writing, writing prompt