Tag: literature
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A NEW KIND OF UTOPIA
Lockdown again.Office closed, furlough scheme extended.Legally I cannot do any work if I’ve been furloughed.Stay home, stay safe.Raining outside, and cold. Forget exercise.The freezer is stocked up and more food is being delivered straight to my door.Time for feet up, Netflix on, or maybe a good book.Couple of indulgent snacks and maybe a glass of…
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BIG TAM
A chap at the door. ‘They’re ready for you on set, Mr Connery.’ He smiled. ‘Mr. Connery.’ No one had called him that when he had been riding round Edinburgh on a horse drawn cart delivering milk. Back then he’d been plain ‘Tam’. A lot had happened since then. There was talk of a sequel…
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ANTICIPATION
It was time. The anticipation building up to this moment had been growing as the weeks, then days, then hours had slowly ticked by. He hooked up the antique laptop to the power supply and prayed it would work. It seemed to take an age running through the start up process. It was definitely getting…
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DICTATOR
‘What will pacify them?’ ‘Nothing other than your resignation, and even then.’ She left the sentence hanging. ‘What do you mean? They want me dead?’ ‘A lot of them have lost loved ones, they want to see equal justice.’ ‘I did it for them,’ he roared. ‘To protect them. To protect our country.’ He slumped…
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INSATIABLE
He couldn’t control it. He needed it. He wanted it. His desire was insatiable. He could not live without it. It was what he needed more than sex. More than money. More than power. He had to have it. In the middle of the night. At dawn. At dinner. At work. On the golf course.…
Iain Kelly 