Konrad Kramp
Bio
I simply love telling stories.
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Stories (17/0)
- Top Story - May 2024
A telegram to Little MeTop Story - May 2024
I acquired a magical souvenir; it was a realisation. By taking an impulsive trip to Thailand, I awarded myself the chance to have it. You are our own gift shop. You choose the opening times, you choose the stock. They are the very nature of wisdom, realisations. One could say we collect them and form a magnificent portfolio entitled Experience. And that's why we do the majority of things we do. But travelling is the act most generous in the offering of experience, the gift shop with the best stock. We go on the hunt for experiences, daring ourselves to be stimulated in new ways, by new flavours. To sweat, swim or shiver in the waters of new challenges. To hear new sounds, learn novel outlooks, and relish as hinges creak with unknown doors opening in our hearts and minds. This realisation and the flourishing effect it had upon me made Thailand my best trip yet. All this realisation consisted of was merely a stripped back epiphany of why we do these things. See new places, take new risks, seek refreshing distractions from all that we're tired of being familiar with.
By Konrad Kramp14 days ago in Wander
Me!
Mr Brignall was concluding a Religious Education lesson. I was in Year 3 (or second grade in American terms), and the subject of perfection was the key topic. I think Mr Brignall had been relating to the philosophy that nature and Jesus and God do nothing uselessly. Everything happens for a perfected reason, even if it takes centuries to realise it - that idea. Of course, I wasn't really listening to this. I was captivated by the word perfect. I'd also noticed the blank sheet of paper placed before each of us in class and so my imagination was mass-producing possibilities of what I could draw on it. Mr Brignall tasked us with exactly what I had hoped; "Draw your perfect person," he instructed us, all the way from the peak of his spindly 6'4 stature. I knew straight away who my perfect person was;
By Konrad Kramp3 months ago in Pride
- Runner-Up in Identity Challenge
Simon's FriendRunner-Up in Identity Challenge
“So, Simon, I gather you like wearing make-up.” Quick, Simon think! What would Ashley say? “I certainly do, Sir.” Screw it, it’s true. The whole school was determined to make him crack. Youth was a rough ride for Simon Finner. Every day was the same. Persecution, verbal missiles, kicks, punches. As always the brutal events of the firing line lead Simon to the headmaster’s office for questioning. Only this day was going to be different. Don’t cry, he urged himself, whatever you do, don’t cry.
By Konrad Kramp6 months ago in Pride
Colorado
Being a high school student in the UK is very different from the American experience, I can say with confidence. Apart from our archaic requirements of uniforms and umbrellas (because monsoon season runs all year), there's also the mood. I am not writing from experience of attending an American high school, but this starts because I grew up on American TV shows. Ask any British kid growing up in the 90s, the first accent you learn to replicate is the American one thanks to the likes of Melissa Joan Hart, the Mowry Twins and The Midnight Society.
By Konrad Kramp10 months ago in Writers
If walls could talk
"If walls could speak." I've heard it said many times, especially about older places. Just because some walls are new, however, doesn't mean they'd have nothing to say. I was partly rebuilt. My structure is both old and new due to some recent building work. Apparently old walls see more interesting moments, listened to centuries of arguments, conversations, secrets being exchanged, families growing and shrinking. Depends on the room you're a wall of.
By Konrad Krampabout a year ago in Horror