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    Vanura
    Vanura
    Vanura
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    Vanura

    By Eduard Meinema

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    Ranald Reiser is all excited when he discovers an unidentified fossil species. This is it! The crown on his work. But the unknown fossil is not all there is to be found in the desolated area. Something else found him. And it has no intention of letting him go...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEduard Meinema
    Release dateMay 6, 2019
    ISBN9780463013564
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    Eduard Meinema

    "I love writing into the dark; like to be surprised by the characters scavenging through my own stories. Just before things are getting familiar; when I think, or at least believe, to know where a new story is going to, I give it a twist and make my readers (and myself) wonder... how the hell is this going to end?"WORDS and VISIONEduard Meinema is writer and visual artist. He writes in an exciting and humorous style. Creates intense, passionate and mysterious stories filled with unexpected twists which will seduce anyone to finish reading at full speed. Beside his full length novels, Eduard is fond of writing Flash Fiction and Short Stories. All of these 'Twisted Tales' are published as stand alone eBooks in the series 'Flash & Shorts'.Meinema's works of art include so called 'lyric abstract' paintings. Expressionistic works made of Acrylics and Sand. But also Pop-art, including characters known as 'Skredches' (Yes! There is a blog:check out the official site to find blog feeds!!) and...fish paintings. As Meinema says: "Ah! I love fish. Love to see them. Love to keep them. Breed them, paint them, eat them... (ouch, sorry for that...). Oh yeah, I love fish in each and every way."Meinema, born 1963 (Delft, The Netherlands) is former CEO of a temp office, specialized in contracting technicians. Together with his wife he has managed a gallery for contemporary art and jewelry for more than ten years. Nowadays Meinema is fulltime writer and visual artist.

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      Vanura - Eduard Meinema

      Eduard Meinema

      Vanura

      First published by www.transfiction.nl 2019

      Copyright © 2019 by Eduard Meinema

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

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      We really have to go back Ranald, Todd Roach said. Tired of the descent and caught in the cold, he sat down on a large rock. It was quite a trip to get down here and don’t forget that we have to go back that entire fucking end to be back in time.

      To be back in time? We are on holiday Todd. Relax and enjoy! Ranald Reiser said. He turned his baseball cap with the text ‘CAPtivated’ on top backwards; arranged his long hair underneath and continued to search fanatically.

      I do, really I do, but you know how things are going here, don’t you? It will suddenly be dark soon and finding our way back to the village will be a heck of a job.

      Mm-yeah. I know. But we will be walking no longer then, give or take, an hour and a half and it is now… Ranald looked at his diving watch. He had no idea why he had brought that watch to Guatemala. A diving watch, water resistant to a depth of at least 100 meters. Great, but he was not going to dive with his old friend Todd Roach in Guatemala. Although he would love to admire the Great Mayan Reef, the Meso American coral reef that stretches from the Mexican Yucatan peninsula to the Islas de la Bahia archipelago near Honduras along the Caribbean coast, making it the world’s second largest coral reef. For the past two weeks, he was here, together with his friend, looking in the highlands, you might as well call it hunting, for fossils. Both their girlfriends had come along on their trip; but they had decided not to go with their friends today. As soon as they heard that a descent of more than 175 meters was on the program, they had unanimously decided to stay at the hotel. Um… it’s four o’clock now. Around six o’clock it starts to get dark. So…

      Yes. At six o’clock it starts to get dark and five minutes later it’ll be pitch dark, so…

      Ranald shook his head. Come on Todd. Another half an hour, okay? Then we will be back in the village around six. There is sufficient lighting down there so that we can find the hotel without any problems.

      Todd shivered with cold. When he and Ranald made plans for a vacation to Central America, he had imagined completely different temperatures. He looked up, along the steep walls of the crater. From the bottom of El Cimarrón, a ‘cenote’, a sinkhole in the far north of Guatemala, he had a beautiful view of a clear blue sky. Together, without a guide or guidance, they had descended into the crater with its diameter of more than 200 meters. The limestone walls of over 175 meters were more than impressive. Surely we have collected enough material now? The girls are at home… in the hotel, waiting for us. By the way, the locals warn tourists for good reason not to go out alone here without a guide.

      Ranald Reiser looked disappointed at his almost two-meter tall friend. He had known him for so long; he didn’t even know how long. Did not even know how they had ever met or how their friendship had ever come about. What he did know after all these years was that it was no use trying to change his mind. Okay, okay, then we go back. I still have to piss, so if you have a little more patience…

      Alright, I’m waiting here, Todd sighed relieved that they were leaving on time.

      I’m just going there, Ranald said. He pointed to a dark hole at the bottom of the mountainside. There to that cave. Who knows, I might find something nice inside. A new species or something? Just like that snail king. What’s the name of this guy again? He went for a pee in some cave, his weenie in one hand, a flashlight in his other hand, teedledeedum, teedledeedum, meanwhile has a look around, sees something he has never seen before, and believe it or not , that turns out to be a completely new species of snail.

      Hmm, never heard of it; that story. I do know something about Schistosomiasis.

      What kind of beast is that?

      A parasite that is spread by freshwater snails. One of the most deadly parasites in the world.

      Yeah, right, killed by such a silly snail?

      Two hundred thousand deaths a year, sir. More than all the fatal accidents caused by sharks, wolves and lions every year!

      My oh my. All because of that one snail?

      No-oh, because of that parasite. Or actually by the eggs of that parasite. If you go swimming in water where the snails live, then um…; yeah, actually I don’t know, then those parasites can smell you or something like that. They leave their host, that snail, and penetrate your skin. They simply drill their way through your skin, crawl through your body, look for your blood vessels and they can live there for years. In your body.

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