noir Archives - StoryBlog inspire touch celebrate understand Tue, 02 Oct 2018 17:43:02 +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 noir 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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