Middlesex_Toffeeman
Banned
Here it is, a vignette involving the Unmentionable Sea Mammal. Enjoy!
The rain poured down on the town. If the rain had had a choice, it would have headed elsewhere. The town had once been a prosperous place, but with the arrival of the National Workers' Party and their puppet-masters in Germania, there was nothing there. The men in the pubs; the Sealion and the Rose and Sceptre, forced to change its name after Peoples' Militia thugs came in waving knives and tearing the portrait of Queen Margaret down, for all that they said they were better off than the Slavs, or even the 'true Aryans' who had the bad luck to have their dissident remarks overheard, were miserable. The English were considered inferior, although fortunately still 'Aryan', to the Celtic peoples, and here in Northumberland, half the town was designated for Scots. On their buses that were ram-packed or in their miserable, falling-down houses, anger reigned.
Ever since the uprising in Somerset, led by that writer - the haunted hatstand, as the People's Mail famously called him - the Scottish Government had imposed marital law. Richard, the town's librarian and poet, had been shipped off to KZ-Burscough for making a remark in support of the British Liberation Army, or so they claimed. In fact, he was shot out of hand because a pencil-pushing bureaucrat in Edinburgh was running scared of the possibility that the British people wanted something other than Fascism. Their leader, simply known as Jezza, was seen as someone who could give Britain freedom. Many in the town supported him, and pictures of his bearded face were a common sign, often erected by the Resistance. Then there was the Regent of England. He was on his way north again, presumably to beg for Scottish aid. As a matter of fact, he was due to head through the town, and the Resistance, with their sniper rifles, were well known to have taken up positions around the town...
A day later, a torn page from the People's Mail drifted around the town. The only words imprinted upon what was left of it was the headline:
REGENT TYNDALL SHOT BY INSURGENT.
The rain poured down on the town. If the rain had had a choice, it would have headed elsewhere. The town had once been a prosperous place, but with the arrival of the National Workers' Party and their puppet-masters in Germania, there was nothing there. The men in the pubs; the Sealion and the Rose and Sceptre, forced to change its name after Peoples' Militia thugs came in waving knives and tearing the portrait of Queen Margaret down, for all that they said they were better off than the Slavs, or even the 'true Aryans' who had the bad luck to have their dissident remarks overheard, were miserable. The English were considered inferior, although fortunately still 'Aryan', to the Celtic peoples, and here in Northumberland, half the town was designated for Scots. On their buses that were ram-packed or in their miserable, falling-down houses, anger reigned.
Ever since the uprising in Somerset, led by that writer - the haunted hatstand, as the People's Mail famously called him - the Scottish Government had imposed marital law. Richard, the town's librarian and poet, had been shipped off to KZ-Burscough for making a remark in support of the British Liberation Army, or so they claimed. In fact, he was shot out of hand because a pencil-pushing bureaucrat in Edinburgh was running scared of the possibility that the British people wanted something other than Fascism. Their leader, simply known as Jezza, was seen as someone who could give Britain freedom. Many in the town supported him, and pictures of his bearded face were a common sign, often erected by the Resistance. Then there was the Regent of England. He was on his way north again, presumably to beg for Scottish aid. As a matter of fact, he was due to head through the town, and the Resistance, with their sniper rifles, were well known to have taken up positions around the town...
A day later, a torn page from the People's Mail drifted around the town. The only words imprinted upon what was left of it was the headline:
REGENT TYNDALL SHOT BY INSURGENT.