fortune teller

fortune teller

fiction
edward w pritchard

The plan was I would help the young couple, especially the woman bond with the new baby. I've always been able to make a little extra money telling fortunes. It's easy if I relax and just let it flow. The people will lead right along to what they want to hear about. I get a handful of marks, twenty or more and this young couple would get help with how to properly care for their new baby. They didn't know it but the Mother in law was paying me. I took five marks from them and she paid the balance of my bill.

The first visit was uneventful. There was a lot of tension between the couple but I was able to dissipate that by telling the woman that stress would keep me from being able to do my work properly. I used that first session to bond with the couple. I paid the woman a lot of compliments.

At the second meeting I got to the heart of things. What would you tell a couple who aren't getting along their future would look like in five years. I postulated that question and the man began to tell me about the Nazi party. It was his work and she didn't approve of it. It made him different she said, different than he was when she had first met him.

She is not a good German wife he said. It's not about him or her it's about the Fatherland. The baby and those to come were all that really mattered he said. Her behavior was not just hurting him or the baby. He said she had to be made to understand.

After the second session of my fortune telling I received a visit from a few members of the National socialist party. They paid me 200 marks and told me I was a good German and gave me a sign to put in my window. It would bring me a lot of business they said, and it has. Using my fortune telling skills I help couples be better parents and follow the best course to help Germany  thrive. Fatherland. I understand what I am supposed to do.