Natascha Brinkman
Speculative fiction at the fault line between reality and the unseen

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Farewell to a Gruesome Past 

Short Story



Winner of First Prize in the Short Story Contest of the Dutch Week of Culture Maassluis 2025.




A quiet, unsettling meditation on memory, inheritance, and the way certain presences persist by erasing those who notice them. Set against an ordinary landscape shaped

by unspoken history, the story explores how the past lingers—not as something remembered, but as something endured.






Read the story:

* Dutch version — WOS News

* English version — Substack


Related:

* Interview with the author — WOS News

* Interview English version — Substack




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