After the Battle of the Bulge
Vocal Microfiction Challenge (Based on a True Story)
By Chuck EtheridgePublished about a year ago • 1 min read
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Photo by National Library of Scotland on Unsplash
“Hands up!” The American sentry said.
“Yes, Corporal.” I comply when a rifle points at me.
“You talk funny.”
“I am English,” I said. “Is it you who ‘talks funny?”
“What do we have here?” said an arriving sergeant.
“Guy says he’s English. But I think he’s a German spy.”
“I’m English,” I said. “But I lived in the States before the war.”
“Oh yeah?” said the sergeant. “Who won the 1939 World Series.”
“No idea. But I starred with Ginger Rogers in Bachelor Mother that year.”
“What did you say your name was?”
“Niven. Lieutenant Colonel David Niven.”
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Chuck Etheridge
Novelist, Teacher, Transplanted West Texan, Reluctant Poet
Comments (2)
Thanks, Sherry. You're right about the photo; it was the closest thing I could find to a WWII pic in the Unsplash library. I have been looking for your entry in the "Passings Ships" challenge and can't find it. Maybe I'm navigating Vocal wrong.
Hi, Chuck! Glad to read your micro-story. It's cute. But the picture looks more like WWI than WWII. Since I've read the biographies of both Rogers and Niven, I'm tickled. It's a great "reveal" of an unknown fact about Niven, a favorite of mine. Good luck! I hope you'll read and comment on my stories, along the way!