Tag: traitor

• P IS FOR PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

  A STORY OF PERESTROIKA IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA (now the CZECH REPUBLIC) ‘My old friend,’ he greeted Phillips with an enthusiastic hug as he had always done. Phillips returned the gesture before resuming his seat. Přemysl took the seat opposite him. They sat facing out from the small coffee shack, looking at the pond and the green park…

  Iain Kelly

  18/04/2018

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

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• INFORMANT

  Chavy watched the dusty streets of Phnom Penh gradually fade away behind him. The  brown water of the Mekong river disappeared to the east while the bus headed north. The roads changed from tarmac to dust. The buildings from stone to wood. The beggars remained regardless. The bus stopped. ‘Checkpoint,’ the young white man next…

  Iain Kelly

  23/09/2017

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

  cambodia, creative writing, diplomat, Fiction, Flash Fiction, genocide, history, informant, information, intelligence, khmer rouge, killing fields, literature, phillips, pol pot, secret service, Short Story, smuggle, soldiers, spy, spycraft, story, thriller, traitor, What Pegman Saw, Writing, writing prompt

• OLD FRIEND

  

  The grey clouds hung low over the surrounding rooftops. Phillips stood next to the gate. His breath formed small puffs of mist. He pressed his hands deeper into his pockets. ‘They sent you.’ Phillips recognised the voice from the other side of the gate. He had last heard it in the bar in Whitehall all…

  Iain Kelly

  21/05/2017

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

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