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“Goodnight, Miss. Go safely, now.”   I closed the door behind me, leaving the warm fireplace and friendly chatter behind, and stepped out into the cool night air. It had been a wonderful evening. I had only moved into the village the week before, exactly six months after my divorce had been finalised. This had been my first visit to the Shipwreck Hotel, and the locals couldn't have...

Added 07 Jul 2021 | Category Drama | Votes 26 | Avg Score 5 | Views 897 | 26 Comments

Katarina didn't sleep at all. After being arrested the previous day, she had been thrown into a cell in the basement of the Gestapo headquarters on Prinz Albrecht Strasse. The only food she was given was a bowl of thin soup and a small chunk of stale, grey bread. Throughout the night, she had endured the sounds of sporadic violence. Horrific screams of terror and pain echoed around the cellar....

Added 30 Jun 2021 | Category Drama | Votes 2 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,568 | 4 Comments

Berlin, February 15th, 1945   Maria woke suddenly. The room she occupied was filled with the eerie wailing of an air-raid siren. She had been in a deep sleep, bourne from exhaustion, and the sound echoed and screeched in her ears. The room was no larger than a cupboard, just big enough to accommodate the bed she was lying on and a coat stand. High above in the wall was a small, fixed...

Added 09 Jun 2021 | Category Drama | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,737 | 5 Comments

Berlin, February 14 th 1945   It was a tired and very nervous young woman who walked away from the supplies truck. Katarina felt that it was better not to be associated with the young man who had stolen it. She had enough trouble before she left, almost five years before. To her, though, it felt a lifetime. In that five years, the whole world had changed, and everything she knew...

Added 05 May 2021 | Category Drama | Votes 4 | Avg Score 5 | Views 3,032 | 6 Comments

Chemnitz, February 14 th, 1945   Maria lay on her back, the weight of her assailant pushing her against the stack of rolled canvases. From the vicious slap he had delivered, her cheek stung. A small drop of blood dripped from his lip and splashed onto her face. Why was he doing this? She had done nothing to him, not encouraged him nor upset him. One by one, he released...

Added 26 Mar 2021 | Category Drama | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 3,709 | 6 Comments

Berlin, February 14 th 1945   The convoy moved slowly through the oppressive darkness. The presence of the Allied bombers precluded that the vehicles could not use their lights. Since the bombers were protected by fighters, the line of trucks and cars would be an easy target if they were spotted from the skies above. Katarina pulled her collar tightly around her neck and tried...

Added 27 Feb 2021 | Category Drama | Votes 2 | Avg Score 5 | Views 3,602 | 4 Comments

As soon as he entered the kitchen, Detective Inspector Tate knew that this had to be the same perp. Cupboards were thrown open and their contents scattered mercilessly about. His feet crunched on Cornflakes and Rice Crispies as he walked. A box, its innards ripped apart and surrounded by Cocoa-Pops, lay on the counter. On the table, another box, Shreddies, battered and torn, a sticky...

Added 24 Feb 2021 | Category Micro Fiction | Votes 9 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,147 | 11 Comments

Chemnitz, February 14 th 1945   Katarina was sitting in the cab of the third lorry of the convoy. A few minutes after the air raid sirens began, they tailed off into silence. She couldn't be sure whether it was because they had sounded the warning for long enough, or because the convoy was leaving the city behind. Either way, the only sounds she could hear, now, was the engine...

Added 01 Feb 2021 | Category Drama | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 3,387 | 4 Comments

Don't ask me why. I probably couldn't tell you if I wanted to. I had been given an opportunity in New Orleans. It wasn't a tough assignment, and would only take a couple of days to complete, so I decided to drive there. Okay, now, that doesn't sound like a problem except that I work in Chicago.   Let me try to explain. I am employed by a large airline based in Great Britain as an...

Added 30 Jan 2021 | Category General | Votes 5 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,312 | 6 Comments

Dresden, February 13 th 1945   Katarina and Maria seemed to be waiting for a long time for a tram that they were beginning to think, wasn't coming. Furthermore, they seemed to be the only ones waiting. The sky was devoid of clouds, and the stars twinkled and glimmered brightly in the dark, night sky. It would have been a beautiful scene was it not for the cold that seemed...

Added 31 Dec 2020 | Category Drama | Votes 2 | Avg Score 5 | Views 2,920 | 3 Comments

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