Sage Singer: A Short Story

Sage Singer is a baker, a loner to say the least, until she befriends an old man who happens to be beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. The two initially met in a grief a support group that Sage was attending, and soon after Sage began seeing the old man in her own work place frequently throughout the day. She worked in a bakery. The two did spark up an unlikely friendship, and began hanging out with one another. One day out of the blue, Josef asks Sage for a favor...he asks her to kill him. Shocked, Sage instantly refused and soon after Josef confessed his darkest secret. He told her that he deserved to die because he had been a Nazi SS guard (Schutzstaffelor Protection Squad). Ironically, Sage's grandmother happened to be a Holocaust survivor. Throughout the story, Josef (also known as Reiner in the story) reminisced of the days of his childhood alongside Sage, indulging in the rather intriguing information being distributed by the old man himself. He mention how much smarter his younger brother, Franz, was and how much talented and kind hearted he was. He mentioned how Franz was never a violent person and he mentioned that Franz had so much planned ahead of him. Once Hitler came to command, all …show more content…
He was seeking for closure and wanted his life to be taken away by a Jewish individual...leaving Sage to be his optimal selection, yet little did he know that Sage’s grandmother, Minka, was still very much alive. Sage did contact the local authorities and although they were highly skeptical, they sent someone off to investigate the case, which lead to the revealing of Minka’s life during World War Two. The guy who investigated the case went by the name of Leo. He was in rather disbelief at first, but soon realized that the things that this woman was revealing, were very much