Huh - the things you learn around here! Thanks. If and when I get back to this setting, I'll try and use that.
[AH Fiction] Murder in Hitlerstadt
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Huh - the things you learn around here! Thanks. If and when I get back to this setting, I'll try and use that.
Agree, great story - but intrigue wasn't the aim. just snapshots of everyday Kripo life in Hitlerstadt these days.
Amazingly well written as always. Haunting, yes, but I think you found just the right balance between the absurd and reality in a decaying, 21st century Reich.
I’m not quite certain if you ever mentioned it again, but are we perhaps going to see the famed Bengasi Diaries next?
Cheers!
I’m not quite certain if you ever mentioned it again, but are we perhaps going to see the famed Bengasi Diaries next?
Cheers!
Many thanks.
As for Bengasi Diaries, I'm still waiting for the right inspiration there! I do have an idea for another Narrator story, but it's far more tranquil and set on another continent. Maybe I need to read some of the old James Bond novels to get in the right mood? Not that Narrator is at all inspired by a certain Ian Fleming character, no sir.
Say, at some point could we get a story from the perspective of a Soviet partisan raiding the east?
Maybe down the road a ways. Today I had a vague idea for an anthology of stories in this TL, one from each decade, and a Soviet partisan would work well for the 50s or 60s.
Inspiration finally struck! The title has changed slightly, though. Stay tuned for...
The Bengasi Confessions
The lack of real intrigue works for me, the sheer banality of it all really strikes a cord. No masterful crime boss or international thriller, just broken people chased by slightly less broken police.
I'd not heard of him before, but going off Wikipedia, he seems like he was a remarkable and brave man. I'll definitely mention him and his work in this story. Thanks!