Tag: japan

• 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

  anders sand, Avenge, Cold, creative writing, crime, Death, detective, disembowlment, Fiction, Flash Fiction, frozen, gabi henrikson, grave, japan, literature, mountains, murder, norway, oslo, samurai, sand, seppuku, Short Story, snow, story, thaw, Thursday Photo Prompt, valley, Writing, writing prompt

• TOKYO STORY

  Shūkichi and Tomi waved to their son and daughter as they got into the taxi ‘A pleasant visit,’ Tomi said to her husband when they were on the train back to Onomichi in the countryside. ‘They are both doing well in their careers.’ ‘Hai,’ Shūkichi nodded. ‘And such a lovely apartment they live in. So high up.’…

  Iain Kelly

  18/02/2017

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

  cinema, creative writing, family, family honour, Fiction, film, Flash Fiction, homage, honor, japan, japanese cinema, literature, movie, offspring, ozu, parents, saving face, Short Story, story, tokyo, tokyo story, What Pegman Saw, Writing, Yasujirō Ozu