Reunion: A Forty-Eight Hour Helter Skelter in Amsterdam

by Louis Coulomb

Twenty-eight year old Mattias is up to his neck in debt. He's just been thrown out of his girlfriend’s apartment and now he’s forced to do what he vowed never to do ask his father for help. Their last exchange, ten years prior, verged on violence and they haven’t spoken to each other since. What he hopes will be a quick in-and-out becomes a forty-eight hour helter-skelter through Amsterdam. “I left Amsterdam ten years ago certain I would never return, but circumstances conspired, fate has had its way with me – call it what you want – I’m here now. Yesterday, my girlfriend – my ex-girlfriend – threw me out of her apartment in Paris. On any other day I would have had nowhere to go, but this weekend is the ten year reunion of the International School of Amsterdam, class of ‘94 – my school, my year – so her timing, for what it’s worth, was perfect. Sometimes shit actually happens in an orderly fashion… "

242 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 10, 2013