Iain Kelly

BIG TAM

A chap at the door. ‘They’re ready for you on set, Mr Connery.’ He smiled. ‘Mr. Connery.’ No one had called him that when he had been riding round Edinburgh on a horse drawn cart delivering milk. Back then he’d been plain ‘Tam’. A lot had happened since then. There was talk of a sequel…

Iain Kelly

04/11/2020

creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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ANTICIPATION

It was time. The anticipation building up to this moment had been growing as the weeks, then days, then hours had slowly ticked by. He hooked up the antique laptop to the power supply and prayed it would work. It seemed to take an age running through the start up process. It was definitely getting…

Iain Kelly

03/11/2020

#fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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DICTATOR

‘What will pacify them?’ ‘Nothing other than your resignation, and even then.’ She left the sentence hanging. ‘What do you mean? They want me dead?’ ‘A lot of them have lost loved ones, they want to see equal justice.’ ‘I did it for them,’ he roared. ‘To protect them. To protect our country.’ He slumped…

Iain Kelly

02/11/2020

#fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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INSATIABLE

He couldn’t control it. He needed it. He wanted it. His desire was insatiable. He could not live without it. It was what he needed more than sex. More than money. More than power. He had to have it. In the middle of the night. At dawn. At dinner. At work. On the golf course.…

Iain Kelly

30/10/2020

#fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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PERTINENT

‘There are only two pertinent questions: who stands to gain the most, and who stands to lose the most?’ My old partner’s advice circling around my head. At the start of every case, as I approach every crime scene, as I question every suspect – who gains and who loses? Up until now those questions…

Iain Kelly

29/10/2020

#fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

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