Andy Killoran
Bio
British guy, recently retired so finally with time to read what I want and write when I want. Interested in almost everything, except maybe soccer and fishing. And golf. Oscar Wilde said golf ‘ruined a perfectly good walk’.
Stories (22/0)
The Battle As Old As Time
George Luke knew a thing or two about survival. He could dig a snow hole with an entrenching tool that would keep him alive in subzero temperatures for days. He knew how to use a condom to carry two litres of water. George had survived a military exercise in the desert in part because he knew which insects were edible and how to find and catch them. All of which was fine and dandy, but not a lot of damn use, stuck, as he was, on a coral atoll somewhere in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
By Andy Killoran3 years ago in Fiction
Brown Paper Packages Tied Up With String/These Are A Few Of The Suspicious Things
The thing was, Stacey understood that her sister Esme cared, that the constant fretting was for a purpose. She wasn’t unwell, Esme was trying to be guardian angel, and she just maybe worried a bit too much, and she wanted to keep her family safe and well, that was all.
By Andy Killoran3 years ago in Fiction
Chocolate By Death
Death took a shortcut through the shopping mall. He tended not to linger – when he did, shops closed, businesses went bankrupt, trees died and so on – and most people, not noticing Death until he was looking them in the face, just felt a chill down the spine and a portent of their own mortality.
By Andy Killoran3 years ago in Fiction
He Dreamt Of Being A Big Noise
He’d show those doubters… The model was sound! Although he’d never mixed the compound IRL, there was no doubt – no doubt at all – that the outcome would be spectacular, the yield phenomenal and that he was going to make a huge bang. A really, really big bang.
By Andy Killoran3 years ago in Fiction
Cop A Plea To Original Zin
Wrapping sausages in something is not unique to the USA or my country, the UK. A quick search will reveal sausages wrapped in something from China (a steamed bun) to Israel (ketchup and Phyllo dough over a kosher dog) and from Argentina to Estonia.
By Andy Killoran3 years ago in Feast
A Fraudster, A Torturer, A 'Gaslighter' And A Murderer - This 'Friend' Was Not Who He Seemed
A younger person getting together with an older (and often, more affluent) person and wanting to get their hands on the older person's money is nothing new. We have terms for it, like 'gold-digger'. What makes this story rather more unusual is the sheer, contemptuous and unalloyed greed, coupled to the heartless contempt. It seems that Field's victims meant nothing to him at all.
By Andy Killoran3 years ago in Criminal
The ‘Lone Actor’ Terrorism Attacks No One Can Prevent
On a warm and pleasant evening in June 2020, dozens of people were relaxing in Forbury Gardens, a park in Reading, England. People were sitting on the grass, in small groups of friends. Some were drinking a beer or a glass of wine: Some were having a picnic. England was gradually coming out of Covid-19 lockdown, and people were enjoying their renewed freedom. There had been a ‘Black Lives Matter’ event in the park earlier that day, and some people in the park had been in attendance.
By Andy Killoran3 years ago in Criminal
John Christie Was The Killer - But His Evidence Helped Get His Neighbour Executed For The Crime
In 1953, London police entered an apartment at 10, Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Notting Hill was not then the desirable neighbourhood it became. Rillington Place was reasonably typical - terraced houses, rented not owned, occupied by multiple families: A working-class and unsophisticated area, but not in the worst part of London: There were worse areas, for sure.
By Andy Killoran3 years ago in Criminal