Karl is Narrating: Recent Episodes
Karel Dijksma
In this podcast I narrate the stories that I've written. You can find more here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com
Sometimes things are so intense that you lose yourself. How much you lose depends on how intense everything is.
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romance #night #feelings #shortstory
As a boy I found beauty in strength. Something about feeling one with the moment is the most beautiful thing there is.
summer #comingofage #shortstory
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There was a neighbor that I could always go to when I was young. I'm revisiting her place and reminding myself what it meant to me.
grief #nostalgia
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There is no escaping fate for Moon, she is now painted crimson.
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occult #series #crimsonmoon
Moon is finding out her fate is set and what the role of the spectres are.
shortstory #crimsonmoon #occult
In the end, the rain went away. What was left is the world as we shaped it.#rain #melancholy
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Inspired by all the rain, one can only wonder; where does it come from? The melancholy of leaving behind his duty and the melancholy of this land that only knows rain.
rain #melancholy #shortstory
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Inspired by all the rain, this story continues as starts his way home. The melancholy of leaving behind his duty and the melancholy of this land that only knows rain.
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When it feels the rain doesn't end, it takes over the world, we end up living in the thin film between water and clouds. It's hard to even imagine something else exists. This story was my journey lost in melancholy.#rain #melancholy #shortstory--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/karliswriting/message
There are times that I keep on going in loops. I have to find and recenter myself to get out of it. Recently I went walking in the forest and there was a moment this idea felt tangible.
shortstory #anxiety #forest #iamlost
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Often I go back to memories of simpler times when romance was in the air and inconvenience was an afterthought. When spending time experiencing things together was more than enough.
night #meteorshower #romance #shortstory
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I easily find myself enamored with someone, attached and dependent. In that case my mind knows what my heart doesn't.
lakeside #party #sliceoflife #shortstory
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Since the first time I saw the stars, they have fed my imagination. The more I see of them, the more I want to be among them.
shortstory #stars #daydream
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My direction and purpose should be my own. I can chase others thinking they will make me happy, but if I am happy by myself, things will always fall apart.
lakeside #party #sliceoflife #shortstory
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In December I got the flu, the short days and the wet weather left me in a state of hibernation. This is a reflection on how I felt.
flu #reflection #shortstory #amwriting
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Sometimes I get caught up in something beautiful and I get lost. This was one of those moments, it was a beautiful little moment.
autumn #fog #shortstory
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Recently I was caught by the rain and I recalled having stood here before. I recall how this vision has been a constant in a world of change.
narration #shortstory #author #nostalgia #rain #town
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Several years ago I visited a town near a lake. There was kindness to that atmosphere. It felt like life for a moment was just easier.
lakeside #party #sliceoflife #amwriting #author #shortstory
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Sometimes it's easy to stress out and get stuck in your own thoughts. The question is, even when you get stuck, do you stop moving forwards?
amwriting #writer #author #shortstory #walking #stuck #lostinthought
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To get in the mood for the scary season, a little story based on some nightmares mixed in with some places I recall from a long time ago and a dash of pumpkin spice.
amwriting #writer #author #shortstory #halloween #nightmares
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To get in the mood for the scary season, a little story based on some nightmares mixed in with some places I recall from a long time ago and a dash of pumpkin spice.
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amwriting #writer #author #shortstory #halloween #nightmares
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Meditation can be a place of warmth and safety and security. It can also take you on an unexpected journey.
amwriting #writer #author #shortstory #meditation #journey #introspection
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Sometimes I get lost between what is real and what is a dream. Sometimes I feel like I've spent a day and then wake up and nothing of it happened. Sometimes this dream seems more real than anything else.
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When I was younger a special friend and I shared a special moment. Recently we looked back to that moment, back when we were young and we were spying on our parents.
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amwriting #writer #author #shortstory #memories #nostalgia #reminisce
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Deep hues, saturated colors, summer around me is vibrant and thick and soft. Colors so deep, they are like syrup.
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I woke up after an unusual evening and a strange night. Confronted with new emotions and experiences. Reflective of how it makes me me.
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It's been a while since I was at the cabin, memories come back and I learn to move on.
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I met my grandmother exactly once and the experience stayed with me. If only because that day felt more akin a dream than reality.
amwriting #writer #author #shortstory #memories
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This is a story about a man, Frank, who finds a door in his apartment. The question is, where does this door lead to?
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This is a story about a man, Frank, who finds a door in his apartment. The question is, where does this door lead to?
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There was an uncle who we would visit that lived in a place that felt very different, caught in an older age. When we went there, we would come by older buildings, abandoned industry, something about it keeps coming back to my dreams. This one too.
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Eindhoven has a history of industry, something that felt special when it was vibrant with life.
amwriting #writer #author #writing #eindhoven #dream #industry
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Recently a storm came and I felt paralyzed, it just came over me. Part of me wanted to fight, other parts were lost.
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In a strange dream I was in a city I've never been in, being guided to a place I've never seen.
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For some reason I found myself at the start of a path, a one way path in between foggy fields with grass. Then the path ended and I had to adjust.
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Recently I went past a construction site and I instantly was transported back to a time when there was construction going on near a former school friend of mine. Confronted with how some things had changed, and others hadn't.
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After arriving and enjoying an evening, sleeping in a cabin in the rain, the sounds and smells bring a familiar serenity to me.
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Somewhere between recent and old memories I think back fondly of times I spent in the woods. A cabin away from the rush of the world.
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Moon gets closer to getting some answers, direction and maybe even purpose of what is going on and why.
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Recently the short days hit me hard and I found myself hiding in shade and fog.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2022/01/21/ten-days-of-slumber/
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It's winter, it's cold and I long for snow. The silence it brings and the overwhelming light.
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Jaded and in a place that feels like no Christmas spirit can exist, out of nothing it does come to me.
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Autumn is bringing back memories, I find warmth in grey skies and wet roads.
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Earlier this year I submitted a piece, it was not included in a publication so I decided to publish it here now in two parts. The theme was Isolation and Emergence, since this came just after the Dutch lockdown and my own problems with that, it revolved around the emergence from this lockdown.
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Earlier this year I submitted a piece, it was not included in a publication so I decided to publish it here now in two parts. The theme was Isolation and Emergence, since this came just after the Dutch lockdown and my own problems with that, it revolved around the emergence from this lockdown.
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I was stuck in a recurring dream recently where I was on a bicycle roundabout and I couldn't go anywhere. My solution was to write myself out of it in this story.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/10/29/morning-cycling/
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Moon leaves the comfort of her home and travels for the first time.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/10/15/a-moons-new-horizon/
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In the final part of The House Beckons the Fire Arthur is given an impossible choice.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/the-spirit-beckons-the-fire/
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When I was young we went to visit friends of my parents, that day stayed with me. We watched a house.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/09/17/moonlight-and-silence/
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In the second part of a satisfying smile, we're transported to a different world and we explore each other as we welt into the world.
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In a city I barely recall in a year I forgot almost entirely, one visit stood out. This story describes that visit and the moment that I will never forget.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/silence-and-a-breeze/
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Reminiscing about a holiday a long time ago, an awakening of physical intimacy.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/a-night-at-the-mosel/
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Across the room, a vision to behold, there she was. Something about the moment was magical.
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Unable to sleep, I found comfort in the night and the cityscape, I found a form of company and I embraced my sleeplessness.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/midnight-overpass/
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Moon knew change would come eventually. With the change of season, she knew something needed to happen.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/06/25/a-winter-moon/
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In the second part of The House Beckons, Arthur finds out what really happened and has to deal with a renewed loss.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/06/11/the-house-beckons-the-spirit/
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This is a story when sleep just escapes you. It certainly escaped me at the time.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/05/28/a-stroll-through-the-night/
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I had a dream about going into a forest. Of a plateau and clearing as alien as the experience it brings.
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In this story Moon learns the responsibility that comes with a dagger.
Find the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/04/30/moons-anxious-dagger/
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The second part of mom's red suitcase, a story I entered in a competition and got published in an actual physical, tangible book!! Find the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/04/16/moms-red-suitcase-part-2/
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Part one of a trilogy of stories about loss and a fire.
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A good friend asked me (or challenged me?) to write a story inspired by a picture. This is that story.
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I visited a street that I hadn't visited in quite some time. It was a nice moment to collect myself and reflect on the rhythm of life. Its constants and variations throughout a day.
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With a moment to reflect on the pen-pals I've made over the year. How they are dear to me, but also fleeting.
Read the poem here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/02/21/a-dance-of-words/
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The day progresses and our moment of goodbye comes and passes.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/the-perfect-day-of-summer-part-5/
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One year ago Moon was confronted with her fate. It's hard to believe, not just for her.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/one-year-of-the-crimson-moon/
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Halfway between dream and reality, sometimes you just have to get away for a while.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/meditations/
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I entered this story in a competition last year, it was good enough to be published in a book. The original is in Dutch, this is the translation of it. The competition central theme is around a red suitcase. This story immediately came to mind for some reason.
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As Moon is leaving behind a year after her awakening, she still knows little of her destiny, but she's learning to live with her fate.
Read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2020/12/26/almost-one-year-of-the-crimson-moon/
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All the personalities in this perfect day.
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An intimate moment and the day continues.
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Continuing where Part 1 left off.
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An imagination of the perfect day of summer. A goodbye and a set of fascinating personalities. The story can be read here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2020/10/30/the-perfect-day-of-summer-part-1/
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The Crimson Moon awakens, this first part of the Crimson Moon series sets the stage for the adventures that Moon will have. She's told what her quest is to be.
The story itself can be found here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/awakening-of-the-crimson-moon/
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There’s something about fire, it’s magical and looking at it, time can start to lose meaning.
You can find the story written here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2020/10/02/fire-and-tea/
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On a drive to work recently I got lost in this daydream.
You can find the story written here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2020/09/21/diffusion/
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As the autumn came during a stroll through the woods I was asked to say goodbye to the summer. This is the narration of the poem that does so. The poem can be read here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2020/09/04/a-change-of-season/
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When I used to travel, there were some places that left a bigger impression.
You can find the story written here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2020/08/16/mountain-tracks/
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Back when there was an office to be in, I would find myself staring out the window. The geometry of the buildings would take me here.
You can find the story written here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2020/06/22/grey-cloudy-mirror/
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The second part to Crimson and Ocher, when focus fails us. You can read the story here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/crimson-lost/
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Years ago I had a reoccurring nightmare, this is a glimpse into that nightmare. The original story can be found here: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2020/05/17/nightmare-sanatorium/
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When I went for a drive some time ago, my mind got lost a bit. This story was originally posted at: https://karliswriting.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/winter/
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A long time ago I met a girl in the rain. The rest is a dream that I had inspired by that meeting. The original story is here
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The first story I posted and the first story after getting back into writing last year. You can find the story here
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The trailer to the Karl is Narrating podcast.
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