Promises, Promises

By Hubert Landmeter

It is not the first time Mandy breaks a promise to her friends. It happens regularly. So Mandy invites them to a small party in her parents' mansion. It seems a perfect occasion to talk and smooth things over. For her friends it is the perfect occasion to give Mandy a taste of her own medicine. Because a promise is a promise. And a promise is serious. Dead serious. Sometimes nothing can break it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hubert Landmeter
• Release date: Apr 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005232269

Hubert Landmeter

Hubert Landmeter (1971) woont in ’s-Hertogenbosch en schrijft vooral thrillers en bovennatuurlijke fictie. Inspiratie om te schrijven begon ooit bij Stephen King en Dean Koontz. Later werd daar Douglas Kennedy aan toegevoegd, en Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Hubert beschouwt perspectief, toon en ritme als de belangrijkste aspecten in het vertelproces: een verhaal is zo goed als het verteld is.Hij jureerde de Unleash Award in 2010 en Fantastels in 2009 en 2010. In 2011 won hij de eerste editie van de Pure Thrillers Award, een wedstrijd voor korte verhalen tot 7.000 woorden, met “De ogen van de afgrond”.Tussen 2009 en 2012 was Hubert redactielid van Pure Fantasy. Hij snapt niet, net zo min als veel indie-auteurs, waarom zijn magnum opus zo lang op zich laat wachten. Hij voelt dat hij pas geslaagd is als de lezer vergeet dat het allemaal maar een verhaal is.

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Hubert Landmeter

Promises, Promises

© 2011 Hubert Landmeter

Cover art © Artbox / Pixabay

Translated from Dutch

Original Title: Als ze niet weggaan…

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Promises, Promises

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Promises, Promises

Mandy had not forgotten her promise to pick up Sabitha and Judith. Her friends had been at some outdoor music fest all day, and she agreed to meet them at the parking lot entrance around 19:30. She arrived thirty-five minutes late, but she assumed her friends would not mind waiting. The sun was still shining and there seemed to be some entertainment going on outside the main event. The two girls sure need not be bored. And what’s a few minutes?

Then she saw her friends’ angry faces through the windshield.

‘So, how was it?’ she asked when they got in the car.

‘It was fun,’ Sabitha said. ‘Except the last half hour was a bit of a disappointment. Get it?’

It took a couple of moments for Mandy to get it. ‘Oh, guess I’m sorry I’m late?’

‘Next time don’t make promises you can’t keep. Or won’t keep. This isn’t the first time.’

Then you should be used to it. ‘Fine, fine.’ Mandy stepped on the gas.

Judith, in the back, shoved her head between the two front seats. ‘Last time we didn’t get a group discount because you were a no-show,’ she said. ‘Maybe you got money to burn, we –’

‘I said