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Send a text 11. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 11. "X marks the Spot." Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. Perdo Maria Boss had a secret. A dream. Much too big, and overly ambitious. He wanted to impress Princess Isabela of Portugal and asked her for money for his project. She said, "No." This priest died with a no, no, no and a no. Yet, "X marked the Spot" for where he wan...

Send a text “ The Listener." Ecuador . Our story waits in Ecuador, in a tiny town against the western slope of a majestic mountain. Six extraordinary girls live here. There was a terrible cyclone the year of their birth and everybody believed that this storm blew in six special talents. Support the show

Send a text 10. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 10. "The Brave Bridge." Mostar. Bosnia. Once upon a time, in 1555 to be exact, there was an architect named Mimar. He was very talented, and a little arrogant. He told his friends that he would build something spectacular one day. His dream came true when Suleiman the Magnificent commissioned him to rebuild the wooden bridge over the N...

Send a text 9. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 9. "The Chef on the Ship. 1521. Mexico. Our story sails on a ship in the year 1521. Hernán Cortés is 19 and on his way to conquer and command for Spain. On his ship is an important man: the chef Martin. He is also on a quest -- not for a medal, but for spices and herbs. In Mexico, Martin and the local chefs trade recipes and share secrets. T...

Send a text 5. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 5 . "Aurora Borealis." Teenagers find it hard to immigrate. In this story, Carissa stays with her piano teacher in Canada while her parents urgently go back to South Africa for 6 weeks. "I did not want to immigrate! South Africa did not bother me! I want to go home." I lived in a small town in Canada for the first 4 years afte...

Send a text "The Not-so-Secret Suitcase". Cuba . Aug 13. 2016. There is a 90th birthday celebration for Fidel Castro in the town of Santa Clara, Cuba. Maricela is having a mini-nervous breakdown. A total stranger — a tourist, called Linette, is on her way to see Maricela, to give her a massive black suitcase. Everybody knows. In Cuba, that is a bad thing. Linette gets onto a bus in the b...

Send a text 19. "The Heir." A Journey. Part 6. The End. Panama/Colombia. This is the final episode of our story. We are at the birthday party of Maximillian II in Cartagena, in Colombia. Karli adjusts to the life of "the rich and famous". We then travel to the cities of Medellin and Bogota, where the adventure travel of Karli and Willrich continues. Support the show

Send a text 18. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS 18. "The Heir." Part 5. Trip to Colombia. In this episode, Karli and Willrich travel to Colombia. They do not take one of Willrich's private jets. They fly into the town of Cartagena on a commercial aircraft in economy class, and they live in an AirBnB in the "old town". They have a taxi driver called Carlos. He is the se...

Send a text 17. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS 17. "The Heir." Part 4. Willrich and Karli. PANAMA. Why did Willrich (73) decide to give 4 billion dollars worth of "things" (as Karli calls his possessions), to a complete stranger? He was born a billionaire. His grandfather made glue for shoes. Then better glue. He built a fortune. His son and 2 grandsons increased the wealt...

Send a text "The Heir." Part 3. Karli's Story. PANAMA. Willrich Otto Schneider picked an heir to his fortune. She is Karli Richter, a woman who tells stories as Podcasts. The German Billionaire is in Panama City. Karli is also here. Willrich organized a Podcasting Conference to lure her to Panama. Eustacio is Willrich's personal banker in Panama, and he is very worried/upset ab...

Send a text "The Heir." Part 2. Willrich's Story. PANAMA. This is the 2nd part of the story "The Heir." In this part we hear the life-story of a 73-year-old billionaire. He is called Willrich Otto Schneider of Kleber Industries. We are in Panama City. Willrich had decided to give his entire fortune away -- to The Storyteller. Her name is Karli Richter, and she makes Podcas...

Send a text 14. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. "The Heir." Part 1- Meeting The Storyteller. PANAMA. 73-year-old German Billionaire -- Willrich Otto Schneider -- is in Panama City at a Podcasting Conference. This rich man decides to give his entire fortune to "The Storyteller". He has never met her. He listens to her stories every night, and falls asleep. After 53 years of sufferin...

Send a text I travelled on my own to a small village in the mountains of Mexico: San Sebastian del Oeste. I wanted to stay. I had to leave. Therefore—the story of somebody who also wanted to stay, and could. "Katerina liked the name of the town, so she stayed. The road to town had washed away during the rainy season of August and September. She wrote pages and pages of piano music..." Su...

Send a text 6. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 6. "Hadim's Secret Tulips." Constantinople. 1518 (Ottoman Empire time). Hadim is a merchant. He travels the 6000km Silk Road to bring back fine silks, new spices and exotic perfumes. He is in love with Safiya the Beautiful and promises her to bring back something special. Something never seen in the city. The Emperor of the time is...

Send a text 8. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 8. "The Magician of Sarajevo.". Bosnia. They met in a thunderstorm in Sarajevo, Bosnia and fell in love. This was a love such as no other, for she was in his city on a soul-searching pilgrimage: to ask the Latin Bridge some questions about war. By the river Miljacka, she sat down and wept. Lightning struck: a thunderstorm attacked Saraj...

Send a text 12. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 12. "Maximilian Smiles." Britain. Maximilian the Second always smiled and that was a problem. Support the show

Send a text This version of the story "Carmen Lombardi" has a music and sound effect track added. Bedtime Stories for Adults: set in Italy. Carmen was born invisible. She was child number 5 of 9 children of the famous Lombardi family in Italy. The Lombardi family was genetically superior. Lucky children born into this bloodline, soon showed traits and talents of Michelangelo, Leonardo da...

Send a text ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS 2. Fun/serious story with a tiny important twist. Do not let the beginning frighten you. I wrote the outline to this story in Guatemala -- because I am a photographer. I took pictures of beautiful churches in small towns in Guatemala. And of the people. I try to tread lightly on the souls of humans. But do I? There was a Teresa begging in front of a...

Send a text 13. ENGLISH. BEDTIME STORIES FOR ADULTS. 13. "Kidnapped in Colombia." Cartagena. 2020. Carlos kidnapped me in Cartagena in broad daylight. I blame the Marxist guerilla group -- the ELN for this. I was not supposed to be in town on that Saturday, February 15, 2020. But this was the news report that kept me in Cartagena: "The National Liberation Army (ELN) is planning to h...

Send a text English Fiction 1. "Storks in Serbia". This is my first English Podcast. I speak Afrikaans as a first language and I write in Afrikaans. This story was published in South Africa in the magazine SARIE. I wrote this in Serbia, in the town of Mokrin, when I visited a family in 2010. There are really massive lamp posts in Mokrin, and there are storks on most of them. They sit in...

Send a text Immigrante storie. Hierdie storie is vir my oudste dogter. Ek moes haar alleen in Kanada in 'n klein dorpie los, toe sy 'n tieners was, omdat ek dringend SA toe moes gaan. Dit het my hart gebreek. Ek het die storie gemeng met Kanada ondervindinge, oor die coolste goed wat mens sien en beleef as jy in die kouer dele van Kanada woon. Ek was net 4 jaar in sneeu-gebied, maar dit...

Send a text Episaode 3. As ek so na my eie stories luister, klink dit of ek op 'n Pienk-Wolkie deur Bosnië gefladder het. Nee! Die plek is 'n konstante paradoks en het my so deurmekaar gemaak. Een oomblik kuier ek by 'n towenaar, volgende oomblik gil iemand op my. Ek was in die moelikheid in Sarajewo. Sommer op die eerste dag al toe 'n man my naby my woonstel sommer uit die pad...

Send a text Ek het hierdie verhaal die nag voor my 4e kind se 18e verjaardag geskryf -- as verjaardag geskenk aan haar. (Skies my ander 3 kinders dat julle nie "18e verjaardag-stories-wat-in-tydskrifte-was" gekry het nie -- bel vir mamma, dan praat ons.) "DIE LUISTERAAR" was die eerste verhaal wat einding met 'n keuse. Ek dink ek wou my dogter leer dat mens altyd 'n k...

Send a text Ek het in oos-Europa gaan reis en in Serwië gaan kuier. Daar is 'n ooievaar op elke lamppaal in die hoofstraat. Hierdie Kortverhaal is in daardie hoofstrraat geskryf...  "Karin sit in Serwië plat op die gras met haar rug teen ʼn lamppaal. Sy skryf. Die gegiggel van 'n swetterjoel klein dogtertjies aan die oorkant van die straat pla haar vandag. Hulle sit op hulle hurke en...

Send a text Episode 2. Daar was 'n donderstorm in Sarajewo. Ek het by 'n Towenaar beland. Per ongeluk, genadiglik, of noodwendig. By die lawwe afdak wat as effense reënskerm moes dien, is daar ʼn klein winkeltjie wat lyk soos ʼn  kombinasie van Liewe Heksie en Harry Potter. Dis kinderlik laf met vrolike kleure. Ek besluit dat die besonderse plek seker aan ʼn towenaar behoort.  ʼn Marionet si...