Tag: War crimes

• 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

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• WAR CRIME

  

  Snowflakes glistened, falling through the electric light. A blanket of innocence covering sin. The same as that night in Kabul. The funeral had been mercifully brief. Another of the unit was gone, only I remained. Still no one suspected me. The Military Court said we were innocent. I knew differently. I still see her pleading…

  Iain Kelly

  22/02/2017

  creative writing, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Short Story

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