Happiness Follows on Friday 13th

By Peter van Wermeskerken

Julie has the worst day of her life. Everything is against her this day. She woke up late, no breakfast, too late at work, made many mistakes, everyone was unkind. She was about to cry. On the station the train runs off just when she enters the platform. Het shoe breaks and then she meets the first kind people that day, an older lady of the Red Cross and a yopung man Trevor. He remains with her. And also he notices that evening it's Friday 13th. Their train comes to a standstill in the middle of nolwhere and in the dark because of a short circuit. They walk to a nearby town, hire a car. Julie causes a strange traffic accident. With help if the British-kind police the come in an Inn where everything is crooked and goes awry. They become aware of the next day, Saturday 14th, when the sun shines in their hearts and forges them together. This story is partly based on events during the honeymoon of the author and his wife.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peter van Wermeskerken
• Release date: Apr 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311318701

Peter van Wermeskerken

I'm born on Sunday 12.31.1939 as the oldest of a twin. I was only some 1850 gramms at birth, but I made up. I drank from our mother my portion plus what mny brother left. Unfortunaately Paul fell very unlucky to death 2022 at 82 years.I finished up WWII with epilepsis because of malnutrition. Because of the medication in the 1950s I can't show an examplary education. When I was some 17, 18 I grew for a great deal over plus the effect of more modern medication. I'll always remain an epileptician. Only now it's so under control and I can drive safely.I'm an educated farmer, finished study 1960. That year I was co-winner in an European essay-contest on the Agricultural Cooperatives in the European Common Market. My Dad was editor in chief of a local paper at Zeist, a town of 55.000 inhabitants. At 14 I wrote my first articles for his newspaper and in 1965 I joined him. That lassted till 1970 when I became financial writer at Algemeen Dagblad daily at Rotterdam. I studied economics at the level of teacher at a highschool. This knowledge base has been polished and deepened during private lectures with the governors of the Dutch and German central banks. That helped me a lot to be accepted in the world of central bankers, with interviews and scoops. I also got such a knowledge base in the field of oil - while I was an ordinary journalist - trained at Shell, BP and Exxon. As a result, I built up a network of oil traders around the world. This enabled me to provide OPEC ministers with current oil prices at any time. As a thank you I received countless scoops for my newspaper.Being an experienced and good reporter one is endangered with a chef position. That happened also to me. It's pleasant for the extra money, but all the meetings and corrections and cuttings in work my collegues had produced to the maximum of their abilities, that's sometimes hard.At 60 years I got a serious heart attack. I experienced that as very uinteresting, in particular because the way doctors sended me after a week home and at work. A year later I retired and became trainer of the youth team in my chessclub. That's nice! They managed in three years to get to the same level as our first adult team and two of them I was allowed to accompany to the national championships.1968 I married my wife and we got two children and 5 grandchildren. My wife died 2014 and 2018 I remarried a Vietnamese woman. She has also two children. We live in The Hague, the Dutch seat of the Government and the Royal family.My books and storiees:1989: De Jaren 90, interviews with the CEO's of the 10 largest Dutch companies (on order for a publisher);2012 Dubbel Spion, my experiences as a double agent during 3,.5 years of the Cold War;2013 Double Spy (English) and Spione Spione (German) translations2023 Double Agent in the Cold War (reviewed issue)2015 Happiness follows after Friday 13th (short story, plays in England)2015 Puck en Evert, beschermers van het Grote Dierenbos (children's book 4-9 years2015 Mike & Alex (English translation of Puck and Evert)2016 Gevangen in Toren Burchtruïne Lage (Dutch griezelverhaal voor jongeren, short story)2016 Gefangen im Turm Burgruine Lage (German)2022 De Jaargang, met bijzonder recept (short story)2022 Classmates (translatden of De Jaargang), with special recipe (short story)2023 A Kid during WOII (4 short stories from me as 4 year old sabotaging German militaruy cars)2023 Een kind tijdens WO II (Dutch)2023 KOFFIEVREUGD (how policy to the elderly should be - humoristic)"Under construction" by the author:Guardian Angel; Reed Sailing (erotic); Stories by a Journalist; Children.... (all books)

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Happiness Follows on Friday the 13th

By Peter van Wermeskerken

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Chapter One

Julie ran as fast as she could on to platform 7 of Kings Cross station. She knew she was late. The train to Peterborough suddenly started moving. She dropped her briefcase in order to run faster, but the train speeded up even more. She screamed, followed by a curse.

The furious young woman attracted attention with her loud scream and curse. A man called Trevor, who had drunk a beer with his buddies to unwind after a week of work, sauntered closer. It did not matter to him whether he caught an earlier train or a later train as his car was in a secure car park near the station at Peterborough.

He noticed that the young woman appeared to be angry. She raised her arms, as if she wanted to invoke higher powers. But the train’s red taillights were moving further and further into the distance. Trevor watched the woman