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I knew he was there, he always was. Every morning when I awoke he would be there, watching me through my bedroom window. He lived next door and from his vantage point, he could see directly into my bedroom window. I didn't mind, in fact, I liked it. I didn't close my curtains for that very reason. I wanted to see him watching me, it made me happy. After all, what could be a nicer start...

Added 21 Mar 2020 | Category Micro Fiction | Votes 8 | Avg Score 5 | Views 95 | 8 Comments

Innsbruck, December 19 th 1943   Apart from the thin shaft of light, Maria lay in almost complete darkness. Suddenly she began to feel afraid. Alone and afraid. What if no-one found her? Once more she tried to pull herself free from the heaviness which held her but it was no good, she didn't have the strength. Whatever was holding her was across her stomach. It wasn't so much...

Added 11 Mar 2020 | Category Drama | Votes 2 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,020 | 3 Comments

Innsbruck, December 19 th 1943   Katarina and Maria sat silently facing the warm, crackling fire which was burning brightly in the fireplace of the guardroom. For a while, at least, they were warm but very weary. On the wall above the fireplace was a large clock. Maria looked up at it and sighed gently. Every swing of the pendulum and every tick and tock of the escape...

Added 17 Feb 2020 | Category Drama | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,746 | 3 Comments

You could give me roses, the most beautiful of flowers, Or take me out to dinner and sit for several hours.   You could buy a fancy card, filled with words of love, Perhaps a gilded cage with a single white dove.   You could get a diamond ring, the one I have is old, It sits upon my finger, beside the band of gold.   You could whisper in my ear, sweet words of love and more, But...

Added 01 Feb 2020 | Category Poetry | Votes 10 | Avg Score 5 | Views 677 | 10 Comments

Innsbruck, December 17 th 1943   Both Maria and Katarina were glad that the policeman hadn't argued. They had spent some ninety minutes on the back of this filthy, freezing lorry as it picked its way carefully along the rubble-strewn streets, almost but not quite stopping as it drove over bricks and pieces of debris. The foreman had done a marvellous job of keeping the...

Added 14 Jan 2020 | Category Drama | Votes 4 | Avg Score 5 | Views 2,722 | 5 Comments

Innsbruck, December 15 th 1943   The night wore on. Huddled together for warmth in the now freezing carriage, Katarina and Maria dozed fitfully. The hours seemed to pass by so slowly but, eventually, the cold, grey dawn began to push away the darkness. As the light grew in intensity, a few white snowflakes began to fall past the window. Maria wiped her hand across the...

Added 27 Nov 2019 | Category Drama | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 3,156 | 6 Comments

Sunday morning, cold, damp and miserable. The dark rain-clouds which had, less than an hour previously, let fall a deluge of freezing rain upon the fields and hills surrounding the small Pennine village, were beginning to break. Their stark edges becoming wisps of pale grey. For the men and women who had gathered around the well-kept war memorial, the weather was a mere inconvenience....

Added 04 Nov 2019 | Category Flash Fiction | Votes 9 | Avg Score 5 | Views 739 | 12 Comments

Brenner. December 15 th 1943   For the first time in many months, Katarina and Maria found that they had a little time to relax. The Army began to dismantle the compound, beginning with the damaged huts at the far end. The first two huts remained in use. One for accommodation and storage, the other for minor injuries and ailments. As the time to depart approached, the two...

Added 30 Oct 2019 | Category Drama | Votes 4 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,838 | 4 Comments

Rome. November 28 th 1943   As the sun began to set, Katarina and Maria continued with the task of ensuring that the patients were ready for the big move the following day. According to their orders, ambulances would be provided at first light ready to begin the transfer to the railhead where two hospital trains would be waiting to take them on the long journey back to Germany....

Added 13 Oct 2019 | Category Drama | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 1,417 | 4 Comments

Back in the spring, my husband and I went to visit a 1940s Weekend. There were many people there dressed in the fashions and uniforms of those days. There were vehicles and stalls and it really was a wonderful weekend. An escape from the humdrum repetitiveness of my daily life. As I walked, arm in arm with my husband, Philip, I took in the sights, sounds and even tastes of the Forties....

Added 07 Oct 2019 | Category Mystery | Votes 6 | Avg Score 5 | Views 871 | 6 Comments

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