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    By Gilbert Van Hoeydonck

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    A camping trip in the Belgian Ardennes takes an unexpected turn when three students cross paths with a fugitive in the forest. As they are forced to make choices, they discover the ambiguity of their own motivations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGilbert Van Hoeydonck
    Release dateOct 23, 2017
    ISBN9780994392572
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    Gilbert Van Hoeydonck

    Gilbert F. J. Van Hoeydonck is an Australian writer based in Melbourne. He grew up in Belgium and studied Dutch and English at the University of Antwerp. In 1978 he took up a limited tenure lectureship in Dutch Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne, where he taught for six years. After he became an Australian citizen Gilbert worked for the Victorian Government as a policy adviser and project manager in child protection and public mental health services. He participated in some high–profile child death inquiries and helped implement clinical outcome measurement across Victoria's public mental health services. Gilbert now works as an independent writer. He has published a number of short stories. The Best of Intentions (2018) is his his first novel. Sign up for Smashwords author alerts on this page to receive an update when Gilbert releases a new book.

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      Gilbert F.J. Van Hoeydonck

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      Published by Gilbert Van Hoeydonck (Melbourne) in October 2017.

      Smashwords edition (version 1.01).

      ISBN 9780994392572

      Copyright

      © 2017 by Gilbert F. J. Van Hoeydonck.

      All rights reserved. The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

      Cover image: hiking track Hirschgrundweg, copyright LianeM 2017 via Shutterstock.

      Disclaimer

      This short story is a work of fiction. While its premise is loosely based on events that took place in Belgium in the 1970s, it does not aim to recount those events. Regardless of the inspiration behind it, my story is entirely fictitious: places, names, characters, situations, dialogues and events have been altered, omitted or invented. I did what writers do: I made up a story.

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      At first it had all seemed so underwhelming. From up on the ridge the camping ground looked like an abandoned soccer field, a rectangle of grass bordered by young oak trees and clumps of indistinct shrubs. The Ourthe River seemed but a rivulet, a blueish ribbon draped along the tree line,

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