The Veterans Writing Project picked up my story “Beer Here” for their publication, O-Dark-Thirty.

Procession from the Kreuzberg monastery up to the crosses on the mountain.   Picture courtesy of Wikpedia.

Procession from the Kreuzberg monastery up to the crosses on the mountain. Picture courtesy of Wikpedia.

Beer Here

Barb Hoskins, a Cold War-era CI investigator runs into a platoon-mate from Basic who is on her way back to the Land of the Round Doorknob. They go out for a last-minute fling at a monastery, famed for its beer, and wind up with more action than they bargained for.

The story is one of a series that will be part of a book, Culture Shock.

On the Sisters in Crime Guppy email list (Guppy standing for the “Great UnPublished”) the weekly topic question was where you’d choose to be writing.  My reply was that I’d like to be in the Rhön area of the German states of  Hesse, Thuringia and Bavaria doing story research.  The cost to do this being what it is, I’m making do with bratwurst, Google maps and a webcam.

Kreuzberg monastery beer garden at quarter to seven in the morning.