Horrific yet comic. A series of events that individually were nothing, but together in place and moment, produced the perfect slapstick.
The allied jeep skewed criminally fast round the corner, chasing the Oberstleutnant who, necessarily negligent of road safety, didn’t see the planks over the bomb debris.
The car rammed his bike up the makeshift ramp, launching him, howling, arms spread like the Nazi eagle on his tunic, to smack into the wall of La Mairie.
We cleaned away the blood but left the embedded bike for chuckles.
It’s dark humour but after war, you take relief however it comes.
Written for Friday Fictioneers – a 100 words story based on a photo prompt. Hosted by Rochelle. Read the other entries here.
Michael Wynn 
Good one,, and it has a ring of truth to it. After war, we do try to find something good to think about.
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Thanks, Bear
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Gallows humour seems particularly appropriate to wartime
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Thanks, Neil
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Impossible to feel sorry for the accident victim.
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Exactly, thanks Liz
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Ouch! Ha, nice one!
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Thanks, Mason
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Very well-written…
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Thank you
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Don’t we wish all Nazis would find an end like this. Great story.
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Thanks, I think we do.
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Good title. Good take on the prompt. A ring of truth about the mindset. Well written, Michael.
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Thanks, Penny
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Much more fun than simply shooting him!
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I think so. We need more creative deaths in our fiction
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What a fitting end for the nazi, and a fitting memorial to his death.
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Thanks, fitting end and you’re right, something to make people smile again.
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🙂 You are welcome.
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Dear Michael,
I echo Lisa. A fitting end for a Nazi. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle. Nazis are useul when you just feel in the mood for a little black humour.
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