| Inspired by masters of imaginative fiction like Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury and winner of awards in the USA, Belgium and The Netherlands I am offering free samples of my short stories on this website, with printer-friendly versions if you don't want to read them online. They can also be downloaded as free e-Books. I hope you enjoy them all. | ||||
| Historical Fiction - Love Stories - Mainstream | ||||
| Horror - SF | ||||
AutobiographyThe first, bitter-sweet, experience of love, by a very young boy |
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When I was about nine I spent a summer vacation at sea, with my mom, in the small Dutch village of Domburg. We stayed at a cheap hotel. It had cracks in the wash basins, rusty taps that groaned and floor-boards that creaked. Our room was on the first floor, with a balcony on the street side. That street was a tarmac road, leading into the dunes. The sidewalk ended at our hotel. More | ||
AutobiographyRites of passage for a 12-year-old boy with a slightly older girl |
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As an only son, with a seafaring father, I had been raised and shamelessly pampered by my mom. Normally we also spent vacations together, until I was twelve. That summer something came up - I never found out what - that made it necessary for me to be out of the way. So I was to spend a few weeks in a youth hostel in Zandvoort, a seaside resort, to my total delight. My first vacation alone. I became the envy of all the other kids in the neighborhood. More | ||
An unhappy marriage leads to a love affair with a much younger girl until a brutal event changes everything. |
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Yvonne had always said that Willem was a great big softy, which I found hard to believe. He certainly did not look it. Willem Wallace was a groom at the riding school where I stabled my horse in the early 1970s. He looked like a brooding villain from a silent movie, tall, lanky and square-shouldered. His black, oily hair was plastered back to resemble a skull-cap. Although his face had regular features that almost made him handsome, this impression was ruined by dirt, dense stubbles and an eternal scowl. More | ||
Mainstream
An older man's friendship with a young, innocent girl leads to unexpected ecstacy and agony. (some sexual content) |
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As always, Hans Martenglass awoke reluctantly, into a world of quiet
desperation. "Once more into the breach, dear friend, once more," he muttered and opened his eyes to the surprising sight of his bed covered in snow. It was not really sensational, not like being out in an Antarctic blizzard with Robert Falcon Scott or something, just a pretty veil of finely frozen waterlace, but snow all the same. Not the thing to expect inside the supposed safety of one's attic on a February morning late in the twentieth century. More |
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Autobiography NewBeautiful, sweet and lascivious she was almost perfect but harbored a dark secret. (some sexual content) |
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The first time I saw Emma was in the Harbour Jazzclub. A place of profound melancholy. Sad hunting ground for older, despairing singles, where I had been relegated in my early forties. It was a large, old-fashioned dance hall, off the beaten track, so probably low-rent, always dimly lit, too big for its clientele, a bit shabby, with a whiff of bad plumbing always lingering in the background. More | ||
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