John Van Wageningen

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2019

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“To Whom it May Concern” by John Van Wageningen

Submitted to Contest #146

To Whom It May Concern It’s a wonderful notion, is it not, to think we don’t really die, but simply pass into another dimension only to reappear, as a new born baby, in another time and place, in the future? Tibetan Buddhism teaches about reincarnation and how the search for a new Dalai Lama entails gathering up some of his former possessions and laying them, together with other random items, at the feet of the child suspected to be the reincarnation. If the child favours the items of the former Dalai Lama over the other random items, so...

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“Jack” by John Van Wageningen

Submitted to Contest #11

Television interviewers often ask their celebrity guest, “What advice would you give yourself as a child?”I remember myself as an insecure twelve year old with a bad stutter and an equally bad complexion making my way, on weekends and holidays, down to the beach with my trusty Boxer dog.As we walked, half ran, both getting excited, through the foreshore and over the sand dunes, I would unclip him and let him bound into the waves while I stood on the edge and let the sea breezes blow away my frustrations. I would shou...

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Author bio

Hi, I’m John Van Wageningen. I’m retired and live with my wife in a mud brick home on twenty acres in the Australian bush. My main job for a large part of my life was as a postman but I also worked as an assistant in a local library a few years before I finally retired. I’ve always loved books and tried several times to write, even enrolling in a writing course as a young adult. But like most projects in my life, I never finished it. I have a small collection of unfinished stories and ideas that have been gathering dust in an old cupboard in the shed and only recently fished them out and took a new interest in perhaps trying to finish them. I’m 72 years old.