Böcker av Walt Storm

A peaceful estate-hotel on the east coast of Toscane in Italy, run by an aged American-English couple.A strange, wild man applies for the offered job of gardener. He fits in, as if he belongs to the terrain.When the husband dies suddenly, the peaceful ambiance is disturbed. It was already, actually, by a letter from the bank.Gradually the gardener and a young woman who came for the same job, have to take over. And they have to fight criminal assaults on the property. The gardener seems to be the central rock in the turmoil.

A man alone.Really alone, apathetic, almost dead inside, even though he is not that old.To his own great surprise, he addresses a woman in front of a restaurant. She is also alone, but still struggling. There is still life in her. Who is he? Who is she?What past has made him this way? And her? Like frightened snails, they circle each other, shooting into their shells at any sign of trouble.Will they come out? She does. Discovering she loves women.He does, too, at last, but it takes more How an illegitimate child can fall from a heaven of pure bliss into an abyss of shame and humiliation. Not once, but twice. Two consecutive blows are too much for a fatherless adolescent to handle.It takes forty years before he dares to touch a woman again.

A man with an old Landrover and an invalid son has settled in a remote town in northern France. The war elsewhere and the closure of the cement works have driven out many of the inhabitants and summer visitors.The man is interested in just one thing: an estate where perhaps no one has lived for a century.He sets out to investigate and discovers some disturbing things in the courtyard.On the terrace of the only restaurant open, a young psychologist is fascinated by the way father and son communicate.Because he and she are blocked by past experiences, Yuri, who can't speak, has a lot of work to do.And what the bomb squad discovers at the yard... you wouldn't wish it on even the angriest neighbor.

A young man is a volunteer assistant conductor on a museum train, practicing for the stoker/auxiliary machinist exam.And yes, then a girl joins him.It shakes him up so much that he has to come out of his cocoon.The awakening is not without controversy.Eventually the love between him and the machine brings him into real life.

Sometimes important encounters occur in the blink of an eye. Literally: the eye flashes aside for a moment, alerted by a subliminal image, and into that eye falls that other person. In this case, a horse caught in sheep wire.It could also be that the horse was calling the man telepathically. Horses can do that, especially if they interact with people a lot, and this is an old greengrocer's cart horse.The man frees the horse and goes to take care of it. Walking along roads and the dike, where there is plenty to graze, building a stable.Then some successive interventions by strangers happen and they become outlaws.

In an old port city, somewhere in Europe, lies an abandoned harbour behind the railroad emplacement. Trade has moved from the center to new sites in the outskirts of the city and the old quays and warehouses are deserted.There is only one access left since they built the four lane Ringway: a small tunnel under the tracks. Some tramps and homeless children have found shelter at the other side.The police is not aware there's an abandoned neighborhood; nobody lives there anymore. Or...?Near Central Station a long traverse across the tracks houses traffic control. In the late night controller Bart notices that the regular container train has gone wild; he has to have it derailed. Wreckage with dangerous cargo makes the derelict site inaccessible.Not long after controllers on the traverse see children on the tracks...Read their stories, put on paper on an old typewriter by the apprentice reporter Nils.

Preface In a small Côte d'Azur village with a hotel, a beach and fishermen, a blind boy and Manon, the daughter of a gruff baker, hang out on the beach daily with the village children, from the age when they were toddlers. And yet they live still in a world of their own.Timo, although deprived of eyesight, is gifted with insight.He can tell intricate stories that captivate children as well as adults. That's how in the summer of 1957 they meet Sofie, a slowly dying girl of their age. He discovers what she lacks and shares with her his daily breakfast of fried "fruits de mer" he gets from the fishermen. Sofie recovers.Timo "sees" with his hands and one day Manon permits him to "see" her ripening body. So does Sofie. They taste loveand promise each other to marry the three of them. There is no proof this particular story did ever happen, but no proof either it didn't.There are famous lovers in literature and art, like Romeo and Juliet. So why should this story be different?Purity has it own ways to stand out in the Akasha Chronicles and to reach the "fantasy" of writers who are acquainted with this purity and long for it. Because longing is a strong magnet.

The sawmill's forest is lost in devastating fires. After years of drought, a period of torrential rain breaks out. The barren slopes no longer hold water and a black floodwave rages through the river valley.Climate change has made the weather go feral. Eleven-year-old Mindra and her invalid grandmother are the last inhabitants of a village near the abandoned sawmill, high on the mountainside.She rescues some survivors, who become her new family. The world has tipped over and they must make it on their own. Mindra has to grow up fast.

Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated from the French by the Vietminh. In the south, the French army and navy are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in Saigon in power. It began for Ruben with a dream about puzzling meanings of floating bamboo braids.We meet him in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarkes from a French ocean liner, in search of a monastery that should be somewhere in the mountains of Annam. It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents: a little skeleton, not of a child. Accompanying the chest was a manuscript - played into his hands by an old librarian - of a relative who had not survived the war. In it, his ancestor mentioned a monastery of the unknown order of Zong. A Chinese word, he would later find out, but the order seemed to be Japanese.... He engages a boy in Nha Trang to be his guide. Nguyen takes him to his grandmothers compound, where he lives with his mother Yen.Ruben blends into Annamese life, trekking through forests and mountains with Nguyen and later with Yen; they travel by smuggling ships, old junks and rattling coasters from North to South and back again, across a war-torn country.

I traveled to Ireland with a self-built tiny house, trailed by my old camper van. I had an urge to discover that magic country and to find out who I really was.In France I got a companion: an old stray cat.I only realized what I had seen, experienced and what it did to me, when I wrote this little novel.What the voyage meant for Chéri I can only guess.

Man meets Dog and they start talking to each other. The man is not very surprised hearing Dog speaking human language. Dog tells he is a Loose-running, which means he is utterly autonomous and has no pack, house nor owner. Man, who is kind of exiled from society, introduces himself as Stuck-up.They trek through nightly countryside, towns and dikes in search of the sea. Dog has heard that sea-dogs, as seals are called in the Netherlands, live as Loose-running in the wild near the sea.They have long talks during their wanderings and meals, and start to comprehend more and more of the other species. They both find sort of destinies, which differ immensely.