Tag: code

• BERLIN

  It was gibberish to him. Maybe they could make something out of it back at the Circus. That’s what the codebreakers were there for after all. He made a mental note to forward on the complete transcript of the interrogation as soon as it was ready. Maybe he just didn’t want to believe what he…

  Iain Kelly

  14/12/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, berlin, breakers, circus, code, creative writing, drama, espionage, Fiction, Flash Fiction, interrogation, interrogator, john le carre, literature, Military, mole, Romance, secret service, service, Short Story, spy, story, thriller, torture, tribute, waterboarding, Writing, writing prompt

• THE CONTRACT

  

  Sitting in the cafe with a view of the Houses of Parliament, he double-checked the decoded message. A simple cipher using ‘The Ambassadors’ by Henry James – the numbers referred to the pages of the book, the first letter of the third line on each page combined to give the location. He had it right.…

  Iain Kelly

  11/09/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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