Tag: Writing

• WEDNESDAY MORNING

  

  ‘What the hell am I going to do with all this?’ Larry moaned. They looked at the warehouse full of box after box after box of useless merchandise. ‘Put it in storage?’ Bob suggested. The wind picked up and a scattering of bright read t-shirts blew from an open box and took off across the…

  Iain Kelly

  26/10/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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• DOUBLE JEOPARDY

  

  Tap, tap, tap. The soft knocking on the door. Laurie pulled herself up from the sofa and glanced in the mirror. What a mess. She had let herself go during lockdown, not that she had made much effort beforehand. She took another swig from the vodka bottle and tried to flatten her hair. She adjusted…

  Iain Kelly

  23/10/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Three Things Challenge

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• ALLEVIATE 2020

  

  They needed something to alleviate the boredom. The dark nights were creeping in, the weather was turning towards wintery and the numbers were rising again. Christmas was all they had to look forward to, and it looked like it would be cancelled. They had the same thought at the same moment. ‘Can we?’ ‘Should we?’…

  Iain Kelly

  22/10/2020

  creative writing

  #fowc, 2020, alleviate, apocalypse, creative writing, dark comedy, fandango, Fiction, Flash Fiction, humor, humour, literature, meteor, one word challenge, pandemic, Short Story, Space, spring, story, strike, time machine, time travel, winter, Writing, writing prompt

• WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF?

  

  She saw him through the window as he approached the café. The arrogant strut, the charming smile, the nonchalant wave. She stopped toying with the sugar shaker and placed it back in the rack and clasped her hands together to mask her nervous tension. How had she not seen it in the first place? How…

  Iain Kelly

  21/10/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  affair, boys, break-up, busted, cafe, cheat, confront, creative writing, drabble, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, girls, literature, love, nice, nursery rhyme, relationship, rhyme, Romance, Short Story, spice, story, sugar, Writing, writing prompt

• 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