Tag: Putin

• NEW BEGINNING

  

  Boris looked out of the small barred window. The summer dawn was breaking under a bright pink and golden sky filled with soft clouds. He rubbed his eyes and stretched. He needed to get some sleep but it was not often they were allowed to stay up and watch television through the night. It had…

  Iain Kelly

  14/06/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Thursday Photo Prompt

  #writephoto, beginnings, cell, creative writing, dawn, Fiction, Flash Fiction, football, gay, homosexual, human rights, LGBT, literature, luzhniki stadium, Moscow, nation, opening game, palana, politics, prison, Putin, record, Russia, saudi arabia, Short Story, siberia, soccer, sport, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, world cup, Writing, writing prompt

• J IS FOR JYVÄSKYLÄ, FINLAND

  

  A STORY OF JEOPARDY IN JYVÄSKYLÄ Jyväskylä is the Athens of Finland, so they say, due to its role as an educational centre. It was the name given to it in the The Kalevala, the epic poem of collected folk lore and songs by Elias Lönnrot that is considered the national epic of Finland. Juriitta was…

  Iain Kelly

  11/04/2018

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

  a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, AtoZchallenge, brexit, cold war, creative writing, cyberspace, cyberwar, defence, europe, european union, Fiction, finland, Flash Fiction, hacking, innocent, jeopardy, Jyväskylä, kalevala, KGB, literature, malware, noir, programming, Putin, Russia, security, Short Story, soviet union, spy, story, the great game, university, Writing, writing prompt

• BEST LAID PLANS

  

  Yvegeny Shiskin sat in the imposing corridor. He dabbed his forehead to remove sweat and adjusted his spectacles. The chief had been with the President for an hour. Yvegeny wondered how his report was being received. He nervously fingered his copy of it. His entire life’s work. Now the time had come. The years of…

  Iain Kelly

  21/01/2017

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

  Agents, America, cold war, creative writing, donald trump, espionage, Fiction, Flash Fiction, KGB, literature, Moscow, Putin, Red Square, Russia, Short Story, spy, spycraft, story, What Pegman Saw, Writing