Category: Story

  • Writing: slow shift

    I have been sitting on around 200.000 words produced in the last 6 months in 3 long stories and 6 short stories averaging around 8 000 words each. The reason why you have not seen anything yet, except from the occasional posts is that I am writing and editing them in clusters. I produce, have…

  • Fragment: Tourism / All hail the white heroes

    1: TOURISM Original quote until “the guns turn into flowers” from Rochita Loenen Ruiz, March 3 2013. All hail the white heroes Yeah, especially when they’re benevolent military people They can do no wrong Not even when they point a gun at your head As their guns transform into flowers and gifts And their harsh…

  • 2061 — 2261 After the Singularity

    A short flash-fiction story. 17 November 2061 — The day after the Singularity Mass Upload NOE — Not upleaded entity UE — Uploaded entity [NUE] No. And again: no. [UE] But: eternal life and so. [NUE] With all those assholes on the list, I rather die. [UE] You are crazy. [NUE] Eternal life with assholes.…

  • Writing: Fragments from “Future History”

    Below are several fragments from “Future History”. A story I wrote for: “We see a different frontier”, passed first reading by the team and which I withdrew and reworked due to complete unhappiness with the second half. Fragments from “Future History” Chapter 1: there has been a bombing of churches and shops. Black barbie [Beginning…

  • “Being a writer” and business models — kicking the Dutch out (into the world) part 2

    Here is the tweet that triggered this post (bold added by me): The writer must have follow-up: more stories in English, a *published* novel. Translating shorts is no viable business model. And: Also, a priority learning point for the Dutch scene is that (international) success does *not* come free… Even though the context changed in…

  • Review and more: Paul Harland Prijs 2013

    This week I dropped up to Holland to visit the Paul Harland Prijs Day, 2013, held in Delft on Saturday, Februari 9 and organized by Martijn Lindeboom. To see what is going on in the Netherlands. To meet old friends. To see people I only knew online and/or from mention. This is a quick write-up.…

  • Remix: PIM PANDOER 2130

    He is the best example of a dark hero, a hero with a traumatic past, a vulnerable one with a thirst for vengeance in the Dutch long underwear crowd; the “Dutch Batman” had arrived. Pim Pandoer 2130 is a grim and dark reboot.

  • Writing: “CHATWINGTHEHT — Part one of the book of Marcus Flipsen”

    While dead newborn children haunt the night, possessed by demon spirits, hungry for human blood, Rembrandt van Rijn suffers from flashes of a frightening future, ghosts of slaughtered soldiers haunt the Sloter Plassen and several signs seem to lead to the resurrection of the presumedly dead leader of the Dutch Anabaptists, The young Marcus Flipsen…

  • Writing: Playing the Exotic card once again: “The book of Koen Flipsen, Demon Hunter”

    In an ancient Netherlands, during the time of the Spanish Inquisition, where the incursions of gods, ghosts, and demons into the living world is an everyday event, an impoverished nobleman named Koen Flipsen makes his living as a demon hunter for hire. With the occasional assistance of the reprobate exorcist Hans, whatever the difficulty -…

  • Fragments: rewrite of “Future History”

    In the past days I have been rewriting “Future History” following the steps in my previous post: “Withdrawal and reworking Future History“. I am trying to finish it before end of day today. Fragment, chapter 9 — “we reject you” Everything we always assumed about ourselves has been a lie. It has been a lie that…

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