Tag: assassin

• A JUSTIFIED STATE – BOOK LAUNCH

  My first novel – ‘A Justified State’ – is now available to buy! ‘A Justified State’ is a thriller set in an imagined city of the future. The State is ruled by the socially reformist Central Party Alliance. Poverty and homelessness have been eradicated, but overpopulation, an energy crisis and an ongoing overseas war are threatening…

  Iain Kelly

  03/11/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, novel, Publishing

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• GABRIELLA

  

  He shifted the pawn forward and sat back. He undid the top button of his shirt and took a slug of the oaky scotch. ‘You don’t have to hide, I know you’re here,’ he called out to the empty room. A head of chestnut hair rose silently from behind the chessboard. How had she managed to…

  Iain Kelly

  31/10/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• THE FALL

  

  The car swept him through the city. As he looked out he saw the city he had built. The banks, the hotels, the casinos – he owned a piece of all of them. An empire that seemed impregnable. An empire that could no longer protect him. He thought back. That weekend in the country. Meeting…

  Iain Kelly

  27/09/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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• P IS FOR PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

  A STORY OF PERESTROIKA IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA (now the CZECH REPUBLIC) ‘My old friend,’ he greeted Phillips with an enthusiastic hug as he had always done. Phillips returned the gesture before resuming his seat. Přemysl took the seat opposite him. They sat facing out from the small coffee shack, looking at the pond and the green park…

  Iain Kelly

  18/04/2018

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

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• SNOW DAY FOR A CONTRACT KILLER

  The official advice was not to travel unless absolutely necessary. Ordinarily he wasn’t one to listen to official advice, he wouldn’t have much of a career if he followed the rules. But heading out to work today, when no one else had left their houses, when there were no other cars on the road, when…

  Iain Kelly

  04/03/2018

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

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