You need to lengthen the story if you want to have it published.

Now it was April 20, 1947, the late Führer's fifty-eighth birthday: I felt utterly secure at Aachen Station. The son-of-a-bitch was rotting in hell, and I was alive, a homeward-bound officer of the U.S. government.

A beautiful, fine albatross cloth in itself appropriate, but betrimmed with pipings of satin and lace.

Economically free countries enjoy decentralized power, whereas the power in economically unfree countries is centralized.