Month: September 2025

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all doing well as summer seems to be leaving for this year. Colder and darker days are up ahead and houses become cozier. I will be busy making soups, stews and oven dishes again during my favorite time of the year. I will be replaying horror and fantasy games and, hopefully, I will slowly get back into reading again too. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the summer. But fall and winter have a different kind of charm.

A final short story called Saints has been added to the website. With Until You Fall Asleep still feeling like a daunting task, I might try to translate When I was your man first. A different short story that happened somewhere in between. So Saints will be the last one-page story for a while.

Lots of love,
Martijn

Hello everyone,

A new short story has been added to the website called Beckon. This one is a little different from the others as it has a sexually explicit warning. It’s nothing heavy, I just say some dirty words in it. I hope you still like it regardless, or maybe you will like it even more. Let me know.

Lots of love,
Martijn

Beste lezers,

De dingen die ik voor je verborgen heb gehouden is eindelijk af in boekvorm. Vijftien korte verhalen die zijn ontstaan als notities op mijn telefoon zijn verzameld en nu ook te downloaden als boekje in pdf-vorm. Om te printen of te lezen op een laptop, computer, e-reader, tablet of telefoon. Dit was mijn eerste experiment om geschreven verhalen samen te brengen en het was een mooi leerproces. Nu kijk ik ernaar uit om aan mijn volgende project te gaan werken en dit hoofdstuk af te sluiten. Heel veel plezier met lezen.

Alle liefs,
Martijn

Hey everyone,

The final three short stories of the Dutch version of The Things That I Have Kept From You have been added to the website. Misschien, Rust and Oester are the last three translated stories. Or perhaps it was the other way around, as they all once started as notes in Dutch on my phone. I hope my Dutch readers enjoy it.

Lots of love,
Martijn