One of the least memorable foreign visitors to East Germany Lotte spied on during the 1970s was the man now hoping to become Britain’s next prime minister. But she had not forgotten Paul Anweiler and until he came looking for the Labour leader’s Stasi file assumed his body was still at the bottom of a lake where she watched him drown over forty years ago.

Since 1989, Lotte has been living quietly in a small village north of Berlin and trying not to dwell on her contribution to the Stasi’s Zersetzung program. However, it appears Anweiler has links with a social media company that employs the same psychological warfare techniques once used to disrupt dissident groups in the former DDR – except this time Lotte is the target.

Short Story – The Ghost and the Refugee

Two people briefly occupying the same space but separated by time and moving in different directions. The only thing they have in common is they are both refugees. [more]