1. When he was 13, he ran away from his foster home and got halfway to China before the authorities caught him in an East German airport. He spoke with a West Berliner accent, and it gave him away more than the part where he didn’t have papers or a ticket or luggage or parents
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Oh, these are awesome! I especially like the chilling last line in #1, and the offhand way it mentions that a West Berliner accent tipped off the authorities, with the underlying unspoken implication that this 13-year-old boy was fluent in a lot of languages and spoke German with no English accent at all -- just the wrong German accent for the situation ... that's so cool. I also love the extra family members that not even Daniel knows about, and why he doesn't know about them, and the portrait of Elaine that emerges from #5.
This was my prompt, so extra super thanks for writing this one, and writing such interesting possibilities for Daniel's background.
#1 says so much about Daniel's skills and ingenuity at a young age, and #3 just creeps me out with the potential implications.
Poor Elaine. I imagine her kids would be pretty much poisoned against Daniel without her ever having said a specific word that would have established his existence. They would hate him on sight, even today.
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This was my prompt, so extra super thanks for writing this one, and writing such interesting possibilities for Daniel's background.
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Poor Elaine. I imagine her kids would be pretty much poisoned against Daniel without her ever having said a specific word that would have established his existence. They would hate him on sight, even today.
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