Tag: defence

• BE STILL MY BEATING HEART

  

  In the dead of the night. That was how I expected to find her. Dead. As I approached the house, nothing changed my mind. It was still. Still like a house with no one alive in it. I pictured the scene I knew was waiting for me. Her, lying on the floor. Red blood pooling…

  Iain Kelly

  10/10/2019

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

  #writephoto, Abuse, blood, chandler, creative writing, dead, defence, detective, drama, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Hammett, house, investigator, Knife, literature, murder, night, noir, private eye, Short Story, still, stillness, story, thriller, Thursday Photo Prompt, Writing, writing prompt

• REAP WHAT YOU SOW

  

  The massive missile defence cannon lit up red and orange in the night sky. ‘Citizens, once again we are safe. Russia, Iran, Korea – no one can threaten our great city!’ The crowd cheered. Klaus slipped away as the mayor continued his rabble-rousing speech. Politicians and their half-truths, he thought. The defence system he had…

  Iain Kelly

  09/05/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

  America, attack, baltimore, creative writing, deal, defence, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, iran, JCPOA, korea, literature, manhatten, missile, new york, nuclear, peace, project, proliferation, reap what you sow, sci-fi, Short Story, story, trump, war, withdrawal, Writing, writing prompt

• J IS FOR JYVÄSKYLÄ, FINLAND

  A STORY OF JEOPARDY IN JYVÄSKYLÄ Jyväskylä is the Athens of Finland, so they say, due to its role as an educational centre. It was the name given to it in the The Kalevala, the epic poem of collected folk lore and songs by Elias Lönnrot that is considered the national epic of Finland. Juriitta was…

  Iain Kelly

  11/04/2018

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

  a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, AtoZchallenge, brexit, cold war, creative writing, cyberspace, cyberwar, defence, europe, european union, Fiction, finland, Flash Fiction, hacking, innocent, jeopardy, Jyväskylä, kalevala, KGB, literature, malware, noir, programming, Putin, Russia, security, Short Story, soviet union, spy, story, the great game, university, Writing, writing prompt