Tag: Russia

• 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

• H IS FOR DEN HAAG (THE HAGUE), NETHERLANDS

  A LETTER OF HOPE FROM DEN HAAG (THE HAGUE), NETHERLANDS 28th July 1899, Den Haag, Netherlands My Darling Alix, I hope you are keeping well in my absence, and that our new arrival, Maria Nikolaevna is not giving you sleepless nights. I long to be back with you and our girls in the Motherland and…

  Iain Kelly

  09/04/2018

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

  a to z, A TO Z CHALLENGE, arbitration, AtoZchallenge, conventions, court of justice, creative writing, den haag, europe, european union, Fiction, Flash Fiction, geneva conventions, hague conventions, historical fiction, history, holland, hope, international, international criminal court, letter, literature, netherlands, peace, peace conference, Russia, Short Story, story, the hague, treaties, tsar, tsar nikolai II, war, War crimes, Writing, writing prompt

• EMBERS

  

  Specks of dancing light floated through the dark sky, borne from the dying fire. There was no more firewood in the barren mountain landscape. It would not take long for the cold to achieve its conquest. Phillips had no choice but to move, to stay in the same place was to die. How much more…

  Iain Kelly

  12/03/2018

  creative writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, Short Story

  agent, aging, britain, cat and mouse, chase, cold war, creative writing, embers, face off, Fiction, fire, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction for Aspiring Writers, game, literature, MI6, mountain, noir, phillips, rivalry, Russia, secret, service, Short Story, SIS, spy, story, tracking, vendetta, wildrerness, Writing, writing prompt

• THE ISLAND BETWEEN

  

  Patrick ran along the path, hands spread wide, feeling the tall rapeseed through his fingers. The sky was a deep blue, the sun was shining. It felt good to be out of the stuffy house. For the first time in a week the wind direction on the island had changed and the radioactivity levels had…

  Iain Kelly

  15/02/2018

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

  #writephoto, alternate, between, creative writing, crop, dystopian, fallout, Fiction, Flash Fiction, future, harvest, history, island, literature, nuclear, oil, past, pollution, radiation, rapeseed, ruin, Russia, sci-fi, Short Story, story, Thursday Photo Prompt, 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