Child Of The Moon

Child Of The Moon:   EPILOGUE >> NEW CLEANER AUDIO FILE uploaded 21/1/2025 < < This concludes the reading of Child Of The Moon, a memoir based on the 2003/04 diaries of DN Charles, read by the author between October 2023 and December 2024. The full novel, in print, including hand-written notes by the author at the time, will be available as a book from my website mid-2025. In addition, the entire...

Chapter 30 : Night On Bald Mountain A day of farewell, a last word from Ariadne, a night of lost bearings and dark thoughts. >> NEW CLEANER AUDIO FILE uploaded 21/1/2025 < < ==== This podcast is part of the month-by-month serialisation of the 2003/04 memoir novel  Child Of The Moon by DN Charles, to be released as a book after the year-long reading is completed. Again it's strongly recommended tha...

Chapter 29 : A Cloud Worth $300 In the last week before the last encounter, the author's mental stability is slipping away and everything is questioned. >> NEW CLEANER AUDIO FILE uploaded 21/1/2025 < < ==== This podcast is part of the month-by-month serialisation of the 2003/04 memoir novel  Child Of The Moon by DN Charles, to be released as a book after the year-long reading is completed. Again i...

Chapter 28 : There Is No It This penultimate conversation in the park is the deepest and the most truthful yet - but it leaves the final meeting unresolved and any hope of any future closed off. >> NEW CLEANER AUDIO FILE uploaded 21/1/2025 < < ==== This podcast is part of the month-by-month serialisation of the 2003/04 memoir novel  Child Of The Moon by DN Charles, to be released as a book after t...

Chapter 27 : The Park The light = delight. And daylight begets a communion at the highest level, a new honesty, an impossible promise and a wish by Ariadne for the book not to end. What could be wrong with that? ==== This podcast is part of the month-by-month serialisation of the 2003/04 memoir novel  Child Of The Moon by DN Charles, to be released as a book after the year-long reading is complete...

Chapter 26 : Jewel "... As it was it all ended with a whimper - and it wasn't even my whimper..." The last escort booking; a visit which brings the whole scheme to a close by laying waste to thousands of well-meaning words of justification and mutual agency. When Jewel enters, sick and over-tired, she trails behind her the sadest elements of this whole sorry business and of this tragic diary. ====...

  Chapter 25:  Everybody Is A Spoon It's already late September and, on the last visit by Ariadne to his shack, DNC discovers the connection between feelings and eating implements: it's philosophy, straight out of the cutlery drawer! ==== This podcast is part of the month-by-month serialisation of the 2003/04 memoir novel  Child Of The Moon by DN Charles, to be released as a book after the year-lo...

Sick Honesty is not the best policy when you're full of drugs and bacteria. Using magic glasses fogged up from incessant coughing, DNC finally sees into Ariadne's true heart. And it aint pretty. ==== This podcast is part of the month-by-month serialisation of the 2003/04 memoir novel  Child Of The Moon by DN Charles, to be released as a book after the year-long reading is completed. Again it's str...

Ally Home is where the hard-on is, right? ==== This podcast is part of the month-by-month serialisation of the 2003/04 memoir novel  Child Of The Moon by DN Charles, to be released as a book after the year-long reading is completed. Again it's strongly recommended that the listener acquaint themselves with DN Charles's whole journey through expensive sex into priceless spirituality by starting at...

Chad and the Girl She's leaving you. And you can't follow. ==== This podcast is part of the month-by-month serialisation of the 2003/04 memoir novel  Child Of The Moon by DN Charles, to be released as a book after the year-long reading is completed. Again it's strongly recommended that the listener acquaint themselves with DN Charles's whole journey through expensive sex into priceless spiritualit...

Van Gogh And The Whore It's been my custom to name chapters after the girls therein but 'Crystal' really wasn't worth it. It's the last July instalment, coming in a little late due to a much-needed break, and, here, DNC books the worst hooker he's ever met. Then it's arguing with ABC radio, strolling the beach with his personal Goddess and off to the NGV to be entranced by Van Gogh. Enjoy. Remembe...

Ariadne and the Ex. Mid-winter break, and DN Charles has to do his marking. The student work is revealing - as is another new moon visit from Ariadne, and an hour with the ex.  ==== This podcast is part of the month-by-month serialization of the 2003/04 memoir novel  Child Of The Moon by DN Charles, to be released as a book after the year-long reading is completed. Again it's strongly recommended...

Ella So... you book sex worker number 10 and one of your students turns up. What now? ==== This podcast is part of the month-by-month serialization of the 2003/04 memoir novel  Child Of The Moon by DN Charles, to be released as a book after the year-long reading is completed. Again it's strongly recommended that the listener acquaint themselves with DN Charles's whole journey through expensive sex...

Fuck, I'm in love! Again he calls Ariadne, again she comes. He's still trying to work her out, still trying to stay level-headed but losing the battle against his unhinged heart. Night after night DN Charles ploughs through spiritual and philosophical texts in an attempt to find explanations for his altered state of being. And visit after visit, in sifting through the sea of the ten thousand words...

The Stones Of Patience Three months after she first arrived at the beach shack Ariadne is still having a massive effect on the emotional and mental state of our author. He abuses her trust in contacting her by text only to further shake up his routine by booking her instead of Escort #9. As usual, he can't help agonising over every detail and doubt of this growing, undefined 'relationship' before...

Chapter 16: The Velvet Labyrinth When is impotence good news? ==== This podcast is part of the serialization of the 2003/04 memoir novel Child Of The Moon . As usual it's recommended that the listener acquaint themselves with DN Charles's whole journey through sex into Spirituality by starting at Episode One: Chapter 1 : Sarah. ==== Music by www. Kai-Engel.com and www. EskimoJoe.net All details :...

A New Moon booking with Ariadne, a tale of rejection, a glass of champagne on the beach and a secret note. In this episode the whole structure of DN Charles's tidy little world of the flesh changes form. ==== This podcast is part of the serialization of the 2003/04 memoir novel Child Of The Moon . As usual it's recommended that the listener acquaint themselves with DN Charles's whole journey into...

Chapter 14 : Cathy The first May Full Moon brings Cathy to the door. She's a welcome surprise, a pleasure to deal with, but it's not long before DN Charles realises that he's playing a dangerous game - playing a little close to home. This podcast is part of the serialization of the 2003/04 memoir novel Child Of The Moon . As usual it's recommended that the listener acquaint themselves with DN Char...

Chapter 13 . Prompted by the memory of another, more famous, diary DN Charles decides to open the 'sealed section' of his year-long journal. It reveals wild, scrawled writing - a night of terror and awe, of the loss of his persona and the shattering of all he knows about being. This podcast is part of the serialization of the 2003/04 memoir novel Child Of The Moon. As usual it's recommended that t...

Chapter 12 . He had a plan. He stuck to it until some hooker walked in the door. Now he's trying to make sense of the chaos she's created -  in his life and in his heart. Maybe visiting where they come from will help. Maybe...   This podcast is part of the serialization of the 2003/04 memoir novel Child Of The Moon. As usual it's recommended that the listener acquaint themselves with DN Charles's...

Chapter 12 : EMMA We all lie about our age, right? But, in booking Emma for his April full moon assignation, DN Charles is greeted at his door by someone a whole generation out from his preferred 'femographic'. What to do? Well, we all lie about everything, right?  This podcast is part of the serialization of the 2003/04 memoir novel Child Of The Moon. As usual it's recommended that the listener a...

Chapter 10 : The Black Dress.   A reading from DN Charles's diary, March 28, 2004. In this chapter the two-hour, much anticipated second visit from Ariadne changes the author's whole approach to this stray year of dark desires. And to her - the only 'escort' who came to visit more than once.  The transcendent lyrics mentioned (but not heard) in this episode are from 'Daphne' (Featuring Eddi Reader...

Chapter 9 How many lies would you tell just to see someone you love again? Is 'love' even the right word? And a second date with a Ariadne? Really? DN Charles examines all this madness while eavesdropping in the Black Kat cafe, and in an endless queue at Bunnings.  Music: www.kai-engel.com   amd www.eskimojoe.net All details are at www.dn-charles.com   PLEASE NOTE: This podcast is a 2024 serializa...

PLEASE NOTE: This podcast is a month-to-month serialization of the memoir Child Of The Moon – a diary written by DN Charles between October 2003 and November 2004. Episodes in this podcast are Chapters from that memoir – each one read, recorded and uploaded by the author exactly twenty years after the events took place. Therefore, for best effect, it is advised to commence this podcast from Chapte...

PLEASE NOTE: This podcast is a month-to-month serialization of the memoir Child Of The Moon – a diary written by DN Charles between October 2003 and November 2004. Episodes in this podcast are Chapters from that memoir – each one read, recorded and uploaded by the author exactly twenty years after the events took place. Therefore, for best effect, it is advised to commence this podcast from Chapte...