Jamie Graham

Just been listening to Evan Dando, one of my all-time favourite artists and my next short story is going to be based on the line “have you ever felt yourself in motion?” from the single Hard Drive.

Sergei had never been to Cyprus before and this trip was no holiday.

The one thing that would dictate whether he lived or died was somewhere on this island, but where?

Although he hadn’t seen them he knew they were watching from somewhere nearby, this was too important not to get back.

As he gazed out onto the Med and watched a jet ski disappear into the distance, his phone rang.

The doorman at a hotel in Limassol he’d spoken to earlier had some information for Sergei, a man with that name had just checked in.

He turned away from the beautiful view and made his way back to the hire car, they had a nerve charging me for this piece of crap he thought to himself but it was good cover.

On arriving at the hotel Sergei was greeted by the doorman who called someone to come and park the car. Sergei got a card for the room in exchange for another brown envelope and his heart started to beat faster as he waited for the elevator to come down to the ground floor.

He put his ear to the door of room 206 but heard nothing. He inserted the card into the slot and took a deep breath as the light turned green and he pushed the handle.

There was no sign of anyone inside, just a robust looking black suitcase on the bed which was locked.

Sergei picked up the case and hoped to God the item he so desparately wanted was inside.

Suddenly he heard a noise on the balcony and a slim man dressed in a light coloured linen suit appeared. He had something in his hand.

He looked Sergei in the eye and said “This is the hard drive” and waved it above his head. He then looked over the balcony and said “this is the ocean” as Sergei heard the waves lapping against the side of the hotel below.

Sergei reached for his gun but was put into a choke hold by someone standing behind him. The man on the balcony looked out to sea as the other man frogmarched Sergei out to join him.

The man said “Have you ever felt yourself travel in slow motion?” and with that Sergei was wrestled over the balcony onto the rocks below.

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