Tag: noir

• LANDSLIDE

  

  The bright red blinking lights spread across the road, breaking the pitch black of the night. I stopped and rolled down the window, feeling the unpleasant cold rain hitting my face. A police officer in a rain smock leaned over. ‘Road’s closed. Landslide down the mountainside.’ ‘The Old Military road too?’ This was the usual…

  Iain Kelly

  10/11/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, car, creative writing, crime, criminal, Death, detour, Fiction, Flash Fiction, grave, hitchhiker, landslide, lift, literature, mountain, murder, noir, predator, remote, rescue, serial killer, sexual, Short Story, shovel, story, violent, Writing, writing prompt

• PERTINENT

  

  ‘There are only two pertinent questions: who stands to gain the most, and who stands to lose the most?’ My old partner’s advice circling around my head. At the start of every case, as I approach every crime scene, as I question every suspect – who gains and who loses? Up until now those questions…

  Iain Kelly

  29/10/2020

  #fowc, creative writing, Fiction, Short Story

  #fowc, case, creative writing, crime, Death, detective, detective fiction, drama, family, Fiction, Flash Fiction, investigation, literature, murder, noir, one word challenge, pertinent, Short Story, story, thriller, 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

• BOOK REVIEW: SHAMUS DUST by JANET ROGER

  

  The Blurb: Two candles flaring at a Christmas crib. A nurse who steps inside a church to light them. A gunshot emptied in a man s head in the creaking stillness before dawn, that the nurse says she didn’t hear. It s 1947 in the snowbound, war-scarred City of London, where Pandora s Box just got opened…

  Iain Kelly

  01/09/2020

  book review, creative writing, Literature, Review

  #amreading, #amwriting, book, book review, chandler, crime, detective, Fiction, Hammett, hard-boiled, janet roger, london, mike hammer, mikey spillane, murder, noir, novel, published, Review, shamus dust, Writing

• GORODSKOY PARK

  

  Gorodskoy Park in the sunshine. Not the most beautiful park. More concrete than greenery, but well-maintained. A series of paths connected by roundabouts. Along the wider walkways, freshly painted green benches, shaded by overhanging wispy branches. So what was I doing in this nondescript park in the middle of Minsk? Well, that is a longer…

  Iain Kelly

  11/01/2020

  creative writing, Fiction, Short Story, What Pegman Saw

  agency, agent, belarus, britain, clandestine, Cold, creative writing, defection, defector, east, Fiction, Flash Fiction, genre, handling, literature, map, meet, minsk, noir, politics, Russia, secret, service, Short Story, spy, story, surveillance, war, west, What Pegman Saw, Writing, writing prompt