Tag: detective

• U IS FOR UPPSALA, SWEDEN

  A STORY OF UNDERUTILISATION IN UPPSALA, SWEDEN Sand could have taken a flight to Uppsala from Oslo and been there in under an hour, but these days he was in no rush. It had been a year since he had been put into semi-retirement. After the serial killer Dag Moen had disappeared into the Norwegian…

  Iain Kelly

  24/04/2018

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

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• LUST FOR LIFE

  

  Waiting for the last rose petal to fall, the end of summer and autumn announced, she could feel the urge rising within her again. Through the latticed window the blood red colour spoke to her. The sun would dip behind the horizon soon. The days were getting shorter. The confinement to her room would soon…

  Iain Kelly

  04/01/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

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• THE THAW

  

  After the suicide season over Christmas, when the lack of daylight drove depression rates soaring, the thawing of the winter snow was always the next busiest time of year. Anders Sand had already cleared two cases in the past week, bodies unearthed from the retreating white blanket: one a climber who had been missing for…

  Iain Kelly

  21/12/2017

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

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• CÂINE

  ‘What is it?’ Gheorghe asked, poking at the pieces with the end of his pen. ‘Bones, stripped bare of any flesh.’ answered Mihaela, the forensic officer in charge of the scene. ‘Human?’ ‘Canine.’ Small blessing, Gheorghe thought. He had worked for the UN at the end of the Bosnian war. He had seen mass graves…

  Iain Kelly

  12/12/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

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• GOOD AND BAD DO EXIST

  

  Good and bad do exist, but rarely are they black and white. The man was guilty of murder. Samson had no qualms about arresting him – the law was the law – but was he a bad man? He had reacted the way most fathers would. An abused child is a bad thing. One less…

  Iain Kelly

  30/10/2017

  creative writing, Micro Fiction, Micro Mondays, Short Story

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