Ночь*
A serial fiction by Junior Remy Haring inspired by The New Order–a mod for Hearts of Iron IV. Remy visits an alternate dark history where, in WWII, the Axis powers won.
Amur, the Russian Far East, January 22, 1962
In the night, I faintly heard a man screaming. He swore he was innocent and begged for mercy. Until he didn’t. My left hand desperately grasped a corner of the curtain while in the other was a revolver. The cold, steel grip felt like death itself. Inside my house, it was pitch black. Only the outlines of furniture were illuminated by the dim glow of the moonlight.
I peek from my curtain. Down the road, I see a pickup truck, and a man dragging a bag–big enough to fit a human. The man was tall with a muscular build and a clean, all-black uniform and a hat. A medal of a golden, double-headed eagle grasping a bundle of sticks glinted on his chest from my porch light. On his back was a bayoneted rifle. One of Rodzaevsky’s blackshirts, I thought. He dumped the bag into the bed of the truck and without a second look, returned to the driver’s seat and drove off into the night.
After an hour of glancing from the corner of my curtain, I finally felt safe. I jostled my handheld radio, the one found in a bombed out office. Debris clogged the speakers, and the antenna was dinged but by some miracle it picked up a signal from America. The volume was at barely a whisper, and static plagued the broadcast, but I knew what the reporter was talking about:
“President Nixon has confirmed the leaked satellite photos of Japanese nuclear warheads on Hawai’i are real. Experts say that these short and mid range missiles can strike as far as Houston, Texas. The Pentagon has raised the DEFCON level to-”
The broadcast promptly cut out, and the sound of static rang throughout the house, like the brutal, Siberian winter that surrounded me.
. . . to be continued.
*Night
Wait, wait! What happens next????