Imprisoned in the Castle Ruins

By Peter van Wermeskerken

This story takes place in a small German village, near the Dutch border. It wasn't there before. Now four teenagers have school holidays. They want something, but don't know what. No playing football, no fishing or swimming. When you see an almost empty ditch, the former moat behind a castle, ditch jumping suddenly becomes attractive. And then you're on the other side, suddenly angrily barking dogs come to defend their territory. So our foursome flee into the old turret of the castle. Last used as a prison 100 years ago. Therefore, the slammed door cannot be opened from the inside. There you are. And then history will repeat itself...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peter van Wermeskerken
• Release date: Feb 24, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224362714

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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Imprisoned in the

Caste Ruins

Author: Peter van Wermeskerken©

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Publisher: P&M, The Hague

This story is entirely a figment of the author's imagination. He wrote it and researched it in history. So it is not decent to copy it for your use or friends. Don't hesitate to contact the author if you want to use the story or parts of it for something.

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This story takes place in the German village of Lage, just a few miles from the Dutch border. There were many Spanish soldiers in this area. The Spanish King Philip II sent them to fight for the Pope against the Protestants. This war lasted from 1568 to 1648.

It was the end of June. The vacations had just begun. After the vacations, the inseparable quartet would head to high school, as an only girl, Nico, Jens, Thorsten, and Catharine (called Cat because she was so quick and agile) specialized in mischief and discovery.

All four carried a small backpack. All four had a large bottle of water, a drum with many thickly filled sandwiches, two cans of energy drinks, a bag of candy or chips, and some nutritious bars. `It