Tag: informant

• THE SNITCH

  ‘All you have to do is tell them exactly what I told you.’ It was easy for him to say. I was a snitch, everyone knew I was a snitch, that’s why they were using me, but I liked to think I was an honest snitch. I didn’t tell the detective anything that wasn’t true.…

  Iain Kelly

  22/01/2021

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, creative writing, drug, Fiction, Flash Fiction, gang, gangster, hard boiled, informant, kill, literature, noir, prostitute, rat, Short Story, snitch, story, street, war, warfare, Writing, writing prompt

• A SEARCH FOR THE SERENE

  

  I lit out for the coast searching for serenity. I had no idea if it would be there or not, but it sure as hell wasn’t where I was coming from so I had nothing to lose. Hitch-hiking across the country wasn’t for me. I’m not a people person and the thought of making small…

  Iain Kelly

  03/09/2020

  #writephoto, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #amreading, #amwriting, #writephoto, bullet, coward, creative writing, crime, dealer, Death, drama, drug, escape, Fiction, Flash Fiction, gang, informant, literature, noir, sea, serene, serenity, Short Story, story, trial, witness, Writing, writing prompt

• INFORMANT

  Chavy watched the dusty streets of Phnom Penh gradually fade away behind him. The  brown water of the Mekong river disappeared to the east while the bus headed north. The roads changed from tarmac to dust. The buildings from stone to wood. The beggars remained regardless. The bus stopped. ‘Checkpoint,’ the young white man next…

  Iain Kelly

  23/09/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

  cambodia, creative writing, diplomat, Fiction, Flash Fiction, genocide, history, informant, information, intelligence, khmer rouge, killing fields, literature, phillips, pol pot, secret service, Short Story, smuggle, soldiers, spy, spycraft, story, thriller, traitor, What Pegman Saw, Writing, writing prompt