The book introduces the best short stories of the older generation of Dutch prose writers, written in different years. A multicolored creative palette – sometimes realistic, sometimes grotesque-satirical, permeated with elements of fantasy – allows the author to reveal the depths of human psychology. The book includes: The Walking of Belcampo; Oosterhuis’s story; Their Majesties things; Road of Memories; Confession; Future; Amsterdam; Handwritten will; Cascade des Ivrognes; Hidden.