Tag: nazi

• W IS FOR WARSAW, POLAND

  

  A SCENE OF DIALOGUE FROM WAR-TORN WARSAW 18th April 1943; The Jewish Ghetto, Warsaw, Poland Jakub, Benjamin and Stefan sit around a table, cramped in the small room, with no lighting. ‘What do we do, let them take us? Then we are as good as dead already.’ ‘If we resist they will kill us where…

  Iain Kelly

  26/04/2018

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

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• V IS FOR VIENNA, AUSTRIA

  

  A STORY OF VITUPERATION IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA ‘A poor turnout. I thought there would have been more.’ Steiner looked out over the square. Behind the protesters the Hofburg, the Presidential Palace, sat unperturbed, protected by the line of police in riot gear. ‘How many are you counting?’ Valentina scanned the gathering, ‘A few thousand, five…

  Iain Kelly

  25/04/2018

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

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• THE WOLF’S LAIR

  

  Kaufmann swept the final bundle of wood shavings into the wheelbarrow and stretched his aching back. ‘Hör nicht auf,’ the supervisor yelled at him. ‘Schnell, schnell.’ Exhausted, Kaufmann put the broom and spade into the barrow and took up the handles. He waddled as quickly as his skinny frame could manage, clearing the road just…

  Iain Kelly

  04/02/2018

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Sunday Photo Fiction

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• THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE NAZI

  

  The droning grew louder. McLean, leaning on his pitchfork,  scanned the sky looking for the source. An RAF flyer, he thought. Not unusual in the evening, although this aeroplane sounded much lower than normal. The noise exploded over the ridge, knocking McLean off his feet. As he fell backwards he saw the low-flying ‘plane, with…

  Iain Kelly

  18/07/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

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• THE MAN IN THE FOREST

  

  Boris sat in the burnt out car, turning the steering wheel as he screeched round the corners, chased by the polizei. In the forest outside the town of Riedenberg, Boris had stumbled upon the old car. It had been there for decades, plants and grass had surrounded it. He picked up the revolver he had found in the glovebox. The trigger…

  Iain Kelly

  13/03/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

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