Vignette: Richter of the Reich

[Gary Oswald]

Discuss this short story by @Skinny87 here

This months vignette challenge is to write a pirate story

 

[Thande]

Didn't see that one before that was a good plot twist.

 

[Skinny87]

Didn't see that one before that was a good plot twist.

Thanks Thande, I think this was one of my favorite stories to write, and I have notes somewhere for a sequel/expansion to either short story length or maybe novelette length - exploring a 21st Century Nazi Hollywood sort of thing

 

[Meadow]

Really nice work, I didn't see the twist coming either (I thought it was meant to be a Commando or Sven Hassel style story). I like the deliberate inaccuracies being used to actually serve a propaganda purpose rather than 'because that's how Hollywood does it'. Makes you wonder, of course, if some of the inaccuracies in OTL's films were exactly the same thing...

(Another nice moment was the Eastbourne sand looking 'inviting' - it being September, and Eastbourne, should have been a hint that this wasn't exactly being shot on location...)

 

[Charles EP M.]

"Ah, this is doing manly pulps but if the Germans won" AND THEN THE TWIST. And then the twist gets grimmer and grimmer, "ha ha you thought this would be funny, up yours, this is a Nazi Victory world"

 

[Max Sinister]

Gänschen? As in "little goose"?

 

[Skinny87]

Gänschen? As in "little goose"?

I think so? Honestly it's been so long since I wrote it

 

[Arthur_Phuxache]

Excellent stuff, @Skinny87!