Crime Archives - StoryBlog inspire touch celebrate understand Tue, 02 Oct 2018 17:44:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://storyblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-StoryBlog-1-4-32x32.jpg Crime Archives - StoryBlog 32 32 150787812 The Most Ambitious Liquor Empire https://storyblog.co.uk/the-most-ambitious-liquor-empire/ https://storyblog.co.uk/the-most-ambitious-liquor-empire/#respond Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:18:12 +0000 https://storyblog.co.uk/?p=329 Foreword by the author: “This short story was inspired by the novel ‘The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald’ and Raymond Chandler’s noir style of writing. It was, in fact, my final A-level assignment in 2015 that got me an A* grade. Hope you enjoy reading it.” I first met the kid, Jay Gatsby, in a dive of a pool bar on Forty-third Street; the kind of smoky, overcrowded joint where you’d easily find the wrong number squirting metal at you if you looked at somebody the wrong way. I was checking him out as I was pushing my way towards him. Although he was

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]]> https://storyblog.co.uk/the-most-ambitious-liquor-empire/feed/ 0 329 Hidden Depths https://storyblog.co.uk/hidden-depths/ https://storyblog.co.uk/hidden-depths/#respond Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:48:18 +0000 https://storyblog.co.uk/?p=141 She opened her eyes. Forcing herself up from the hard, cold ground she had been lying on, she tried to make out her surroundings. It was dark and windy. The moon broke through the cloud cover and cast sombre shadows over the raw surfaces of the colossal moorland rock formations all around her. There was something vaguely familiar about the place, but her head was spinning and she had trouble focusing. What had happened to her? She was alone in the wilderness. How did she get here? The bitter wind tore at her hair and blouse, as she stood up on unsteady bare feet, her

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