Tag: cards

• HOUSE OF CARDS

  ‘Is this a joke?’ Indignant ’til the end, even while being led away in handcuffs. Ex-Prime Minister arrested. Sat in a jail cell next to an indicted ex-President. A pair of jokers. Guilty of lies so obvious only the blinkered can’t see them. Like a House of Cards, the weight of so much corruption and…

  Iain Kelly

  22/03/2023

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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• Q IS FOR QUEEN

  

  ‘The Ace of Spades is death. What does the Queen of Spades represent then?’ Pedersen asked. He was driving Sand back to Oslo. They were following the ambulance that was carrying Gabi. She had suffered a bullet wound to her shoulder but it was a clean wound, straight through. There would be some physio to…

  Iain Kelly

  20/04/2017

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

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