Man in the Fedora by UNKNOWN

Author:UNKNOWN [UNKNOWN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

Anna woke with a start, unable to breathe. She took a moment to focus, her thoughts slowly acknowledging reality and finding comfort in the fact that what she remembered of her night terror, was just that, a nightmare. The same one she had been having since the Reich had set up command at the edge of the city. A brief moment of dread and confusion froze her beneath her covers, as a tapping on the windowpane seemed insistent. Was it her turn to die?

But she remembered… Lullabelle.

She remained silent and unmoving for minutes, until she was sure that it really wasn’t one of them at her door, coming to take her like all the others. Only then did she throw an arm out to test the air. She shivered and curled back up into a ball.

Tap...tap…tap.

She groaned and threw off the blankets. “Fine! I’m coming already.”

She moved quietly about the small attic apartment, the place she had been staying since they had taken over her ancestral home. Since they had killed her parents, her sister and her niece and nephew, shooting them point-blank in the head, without a second thought. She threw on a robe and slippers, wishing she could build a fire in the small stove. But she knew that if they saw the smoke coming from the chimney, she was as good as dead.

Tap…tap…tap.

“Alright then,” she breathed, and then she moved to the tiny cabinet in the corner of the kitchenette. She pulled out a balled up paper bag, dumping its contents on the counter. She took a wooden spoon from its nail on the wall and began slowly smashing up the dried bits of bread into fine crumbs.

Tap…tap…tap.

She rolled her eyes, brushed the crumbs into her hand and moved swiftly to the window. Sliding the curtain back, she opened the window and dumped the crumbs into a tiny pile on the window sill.

“There. That’s all I have right now... Stop being such a pest,” she said to the pigeon.

Then her breath caught.

Through swirling ash, she could see them at the end of the street. Women and children were being pushed out of their homes by the men in uniform, the contents of their suitcases being thrown about. Their papers were examined but not returned. The people were crying and screaming, fear claiming them, as gloved hands pulled at their hair and clothes, poked at the yellow stars on their jackets and used large guns to direct them into the back of a large army truck.

Anna had to move fast if she was to survive. But before she closed the window, she saw him—the one from her dreams. She squinted and rubbed her eyes. Maybe this was still a dream? They all seemed so real, until she woke. Perhaps... He raised his head, tipped his hat so she could see the lower half of his face and pressed a finger to his lips. She blinked. He was still there. He raised an arm and pointed down the street in the opposite direction of the round up.

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