Naya Nomikou
@nayanomikou.bsky.social
Narrator📚.
Exploring classic literature & modern storytellers.
English🇺🇸 narrations weekly on my channel.
🎬 https://youtube.com/@nayanomikou
Exploring classic literature & modern storytellers.
English🇺🇸 narrations weekly on my channel.
🎬 https://youtube.com/@nayanomikou
Have you listened to "The Closing Hand"?
It's a short story by Farnsworth Wright, about two sisters in a "haunted" mansion and a perfect example of how the most terrifying monsters are often (always?) all too real.
You can listen here: youtu.be/RCpSwTRvs90?...
It's a short story by Farnsworth Wright, about two sisters in a "haunted" mansion and a perfect example of how the most terrifying monsters are often (always?) all too real.
You can listen here: youtu.be/RCpSwTRvs90?...
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Have you listened to "The Closing Hand"?
It's a short story by Farnsworth Wright, about two sisters in a "haunted" mansion and a perfect example of how the most terrifying monsters are often (always?) all too real.
You can listen here: youtu.be/RCpSwTRvs90?...
It's a short story by Farnsworth Wright, about two sisters in a "haunted" mansion and a perfect example of how the most terrifying monsters are often (always?) all too real.
You can listen here: youtu.be/RCpSwTRvs90?...
Turgenev hands the burden of interpretation directly to us. It is both a challenge and an invitation. To find personal meaning in this struggle. To see it in our own lives, in our societies, and in our souls.
You can listen to the story here: youtu.be/oRCiGlMPon8
You can listen to the story here: youtu.be/oRCiGlMPon8
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Turgenev hands the burden of interpretation directly to us. It is both a challenge and an invitation. To find personal meaning in this struggle. To see it in our own lives, in our societies, and in our souls.
You can listen to the story here: youtu.be/oRCiGlMPon8
You can listen to the story here: youtu.be/oRCiGlMPon8
My newest narration is "Giovanna Draws" by Nicholas Leonard, a literary love story about an art student from Brazil and the lonely man who becomes her muse.
30 minutes of contemporary fiction that feels like a confession.
30 minutes of contemporary fiction that feels like a confession.
November 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
My newest narration is "Giovanna Draws" by Nicholas Leonard, a literary love story about an art student from Brazil and the lonely man who becomes her muse.
30 minutes of contemporary fiction that feels like a confession.
30 minutes of contemporary fiction that feels like a confession.
This narration is a performance and a meditation — on war, belief, the human contradiction, the question "who pays the price".
October 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This narration is a performance and a meditation — on war, belief, the human contradiction, the question "who pays the price".
I’d read Turgenev’s “The End of the World” before — I thought I was ready.
But recording it was really something else.
It’s not loud horror. It’s quiet. Patient.
Then a small voice says: “Father, I’m frightened.”
By the end, the world simply... stops.
And you can almost hear the last breath.
But recording it was really something else.
It’s not loud horror. It’s quiet. Patient.
Then a small voice says: “Father, I’m frightened.”
By the end, the world simply... stops.
And you can almost hear the last breath.
October 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I’d read Turgenev’s “The End of the World” before — I thought I was ready.
But recording it was really something else.
It’s not loud horror. It’s quiet. Patient.
Then a small voice says: “Father, I’m frightened.”
By the end, the world simply... stops.
And you can almost hear the last breath.
But recording it was really something else.
It’s not loud horror. It’s quiet. Patient.
Then a small voice says: “Father, I’m frightened.”
By the end, the world simply... stops.
And you can almost hear the last breath.
“It was the cats that caused the big trouble.”
But really, it was the people.
Mrs Keeper by Stephen Sinclair — a story I was honored to narrate. Now live. 🎧
youtu.be/0qPv8xJBXYA?...
But really, it was the people.
Mrs Keeper by Stephen Sinclair — a story I was honored to narrate. Now live. 🎧
youtu.be/0qPv8xJBXYA?...
October 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“It was the cats that caused the big trouble.”
But really, it was the people.
Mrs Keeper by Stephen Sinclair — a story I was honored to narrate. Now live. 🎧
youtu.be/0qPv8xJBXYA?...
But really, it was the people.
Mrs Keeper by Stephen Sinclair — a story I was honored to narrate. Now live. 🎧
youtu.be/0qPv8xJBXYA?...
Sometimes the most deep connections happen when we lean into uncertainty together rather than pretending we have all the answers.
The Dream Mold Wishing Well, by Nicholas Leonard. Narrated by me.
Listen to the whole story ➡️ youtu.be/QFvtuZqk2Hc?...
The Dream Mold Wishing Well, by Nicholas Leonard. Narrated by me.
Listen to the whole story ➡️ youtu.be/QFvtuZqk2Hc?...
October 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Sometimes the most deep connections happen when we lean into uncertainty together rather than pretending we have all the answers.
The Dream Mold Wishing Well, by Nicholas Leonard. Narrated by me.
Listen to the whole story ➡️ youtu.be/QFvtuZqk2Hc?...
The Dream Mold Wishing Well, by Nicholas Leonard. Narrated by me.
Listen to the whole story ➡️ youtu.be/QFvtuZqk2Hc?...
The third version titled "The Frogs asking for a King", contrary to the first two, might be said that warns against the grass-is-always-greener mentality in politics. youtu.be/Vm2fFr9pfRY?...
All three provide food for thought.
Which one do you prefer?
All three provide food for thought.
Which one do you prefer?
September 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The third version titled "The Frogs asking for a King", contrary to the first two, might be said that warns against the grass-is-always-greener mentality in politics. youtu.be/Vm2fFr9pfRY?...
All three provide food for thought.
Which one do you prefer?
All three provide food for thought.
Which one do you prefer?
The second "KING LOG & KING STORK" is a fascinating short version written by Walter Crane. Compared to the first version this one collapses the story to its essential elements and adds an explicit conclusion: "DON'T HAVE KINGS."
youtu.be/JE9blyzRInk?...
youtu.be/JE9blyzRInk?...
September 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The second "KING LOG & KING STORK" is a fascinating short version written by Walter Crane. Compared to the first version this one collapses the story to its essential elements and adds an explicit conclusion: "DON'T HAVE KINGS."
youtu.be/JE9blyzRInk?...
youtu.be/JE9blyzRInk?...
I've narrated 3 versions of the story with the Frogs wishing for a King. An Aesop fable.
The first titled "The Frogs who wished for a King" could be a sophisticated critique of democratic discontent and the psychology of authoritarianism.
youtu.be/CEFAXI4vTfg?...
The first titled "The Frogs who wished for a King" could be a sophisticated critique of democratic discontent and the psychology of authoritarianism.
youtu.be/CEFAXI4vTfg?...
September 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I've narrated 3 versions of the story with the Frogs wishing for a King. An Aesop fable.
The first titled "The Frogs who wished for a King" could be a sophisticated critique of democratic discontent and the psychology of authoritarianism.
youtu.be/CEFAXI4vTfg?...
The first titled "The Frogs who wished for a King" could be a sophisticated critique of democratic discontent and the psychology of authoritarianism.
youtu.be/CEFAXI4vTfg?...
Χίος, 14 Αυγούστου 2025...
August 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Χίος, 14 Αυγούστου 2025...
Οι εικόνες είναι σκληρές.
Σκληρή είναι η πραγματικότητα.
Απάνθρωπο το σύστημα που επιτρέπει τον αφανισμό της φύσης, της ζωής.
Καμμένα ζώα, καμμένη γη, καμμένες περιουσίες.
Θλίψη και οργή.
Χίος, 14 Αυγούστου 2025
Σκληρή είναι η πραγματικότητα.
Απάνθρωπο το σύστημα που επιτρέπει τον αφανισμό της φύσης, της ζωής.
Καμμένα ζώα, καμμένη γη, καμμένες περιουσίες.
Θλίψη και οργή.
Χίος, 14 Αυγούστου 2025
August 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Οι εικόνες είναι σκληρές.
Σκληρή είναι η πραγματικότητα.
Απάνθρωπο το σύστημα που επιτρέπει τον αφανισμό της φύσης, της ζωής.
Καμμένα ζώα, καμμένη γη, καμμένες περιουσίες.
Θλίψη και οργή.
Χίος, 14 Αυγούστου 2025
Σκληρή είναι η πραγματικότητα.
Απάνθρωπο το σύστημα που επιτρέπει τον αφανισμό της φύσης, της ζωής.
Καμμένα ζώα, καμμένη γη, καμμένες περιουσίες.
Θλίψη και οργή.
Χίος, 14 Αυγούστου 2025
Ο Γεώργιος Σουρής για την Αθήνα!
youtu.be/EKxcENYknqY?...
youtu.be/EKxcENYknqY?...
August 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Ο Γεώργιος Σουρής για την Αθήνα!
youtu.be/EKxcENYknqY?...
youtu.be/EKxcENYknqY?...
After systems alienate us from our bodies, three poems say: your breath, your touch, your movement are revolutionary acts.
Three original poems by Nicholas Leonard, shared with permission on my blog— quiet, moving, and full of voice.
Read more here: nayanomikou.blogspot.com/2025/07/voic...
Three original poems by Nicholas Leonard, shared with permission on my blog— quiet, moving, and full of voice.
Read more here: nayanomikou.blogspot.com/2025/07/voic...
July 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
After systems alienate us from our bodies, three poems say: your breath, your touch, your movement are revolutionary acts.
Three original poems by Nicholas Leonard, shared with permission on my blog— quiet, moving, and full of voice.
Read more here: nayanomikou.blogspot.com/2025/07/voic...
Three original poems by Nicholas Leonard, shared with permission on my blog— quiet, moving, and full of voice.
Read more here: nayanomikou.blogspot.com/2025/07/voic...
"the instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of living creatures, and through imitation learns his earliest lessons". - Aristotle
Link on YouTube below 👇
Link on YouTube below 👇
July 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"the instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of living creatures, and through imitation learns his earliest lessons". - Aristotle
Link on YouTube below 👇
Link on YouTube below 👇
Tragedy, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; and an action implies personal agents, who necessarily possess certain distinctive qualities; the incidents and the plot are the end of a tragedy; and the end is the chief thing of all.
Aristotle's Poetics
Aristotle's Poetics
July 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tragedy, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; and an action implies personal agents, who necessarily possess certain distinctive qualities; the incidents and the plot are the end of a tragedy; and the end is the chief thing of all.
Aristotle's Poetics
Aristotle's Poetics
He's not a ghost... He's a SKELETON.
Henry De Quaterly, a handsome English nobleman, wants to live forever.
A tale of hubris punished, but also of humanity reclaimed, by Stephen Sinclair. Read by me. #horrorstories #gothicfiction
🎧 Hear the full story on YouTube 👇
youtu.be/xkqLwp3Li-8?...
Henry De Quaterly, a handsome English nobleman, wants to live forever.
A tale of hubris punished, but also of humanity reclaimed, by Stephen Sinclair. Read by me. #horrorstories #gothicfiction
🎧 Hear the full story on YouTube 👇
youtu.be/xkqLwp3Li-8?...
July 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
He's not a ghost... He's a SKELETON.
Henry De Quaterly, a handsome English nobleman, wants to live forever.
A tale of hubris punished, but also of humanity reclaimed, by Stephen Sinclair. Read by me. #horrorstories #gothicfiction
🎧 Hear the full story on YouTube 👇
youtu.be/xkqLwp3Li-8?...
Henry De Quaterly, a handsome English nobleman, wants to live forever.
A tale of hubris punished, but also of humanity reclaimed, by Stephen Sinclair. Read by me. #horrorstories #gothicfiction
🎧 Hear the full story on YouTube 👇
youtu.be/xkqLwp3Li-8?...
"His name was Wandering Oscar, and he was a skeleton."
A cursed nobleman who tried to cheat death must wander the same haunted hill for 500 years. Eerie woods, haunted hills, ancient rituals, and cursed relic. A gothic horror story by Stephen Sinclair, read by me.
👇
youtu.be/xkqLwp3Li-8?...
A cursed nobleman who tried to cheat death must wander the same haunted hill for 500 years. Eerie woods, haunted hills, ancient rituals, and cursed relic. A gothic horror story by Stephen Sinclair, read by me.
👇
youtu.be/xkqLwp3Li-8?...
July 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"His name was Wandering Oscar, and he was a skeleton."
A cursed nobleman who tried to cheat death must wander the same haunted hill for 500 years. Eerie woods, haunted hills, ancient rituals, and cursed relic. A gothic horror story by Stephen Sinclair, read by me.
👇
youtu.be/xkqLwp3Li-8?...
A cursed nobleman who tried to cheat death must wander the same haunted hill for 500 years. Eerie woods, haunted hills, ancient rituals, and cursed relic. A gothic horror story by Stephen Sinclair, read by me.
👇
youtu.be/xkqLwp3Li-8?...
"I was walking along the street ... I was stopped by a decrepit old beggar.
Bloodshot, tearful eyes, blue lips, coarse rags, festering wounds.... Oh, how hideously poverty had eaten into this miserable creature!"
"I knew that I too had received a gift from my brother."
#lierature
Bloodshot, tearful eyes, blue lips, coarse rags, festering wounds.... Oh, how hideously poverty had eaten into this miserable creature!"
"I knew that I too had received a gift from my brother."
#lierature
July 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
"I was walking along the street ... I was stopped by a decrepit old beggar.
Bloodshot, tearful eyes, blue lips, coarse rags, festering wounds.... Oh, how hideously poverty had eaten into this miserable creature!"
"I knew that I too had received a gift from my brother."
#lierature
Bloodshot, tearful eyes, blue lips, coarse rags, festering wounds.... Oh, how hideously poverty had eaten into this miserable creature!"
"I knew that I too had received a gift from my brother."
#lierature
"the instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of living creatures, and through imitation learns his earliest lessons; and no less universal is the pleasure felt in things imitated."
July 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"the instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood, one difference between him and other animals being that he is the most imitative of living creatures, and through imitation learns his earliest lessons; and no less universal is the pleasure felt in things imitated."
historical critique, challenging readers to look beyond the fireworks and the plastic flags. Certainly challenging us to ask ourselves: what is true patriotism?
July 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
historical critique, challenging readers to look beyond the fireworks and the plastic flags. Certainly challenging us to ask ourselves: what is true patriotism?
This day things are about to change. Her conscience is about to be born for a second time, as she'll meet Wyona Board and her fiance Lipton Proctor. Both of them ghosts from the past.
The 5th of July, written by Nicholas Leonard, is a story that masterfully intertwines Gothic haunting and 👇
The 5th of July, written by Nicholas Leonard, is a story that masterfully intertwines Gothic haunting and 👇
July 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This day things are about to change. Her conscience is about to be born for a second time, as she'll meet Wyona Board and her fiance Lipton Proctor. Both of them ghosts from the past.
The 5th of July, written by Nicholas Leonard, is a story that masterfully intertwines Gothic haunting and 👇
The 5th of July, written by Nicholas Leonard, is a story that masterfully intertwines Gothic haunting and 👇
studies the laws of Theodosius and Justinian for three years, so that he may learn the usages of Paris, and who finally, being registered, has the right to plead causes for money, if he have a strong voice.
Photo by DEZALB on Pixabay.
Photo by DEZALB on Pixabay.
June 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
studies the laws of Theodosius and Justinian for three years, so that he may learn the usages of Paris, and who finally, being registered, has the right to plead causes for money, if he have a strong voice.
Photo by DEZALB on Pixabay.
Photo by DEZALB on Pixabay.
In Essay on Man, Pope presents a philosophical argument in poetic form. Epistle IV focuses on "Happiness", trying to reconcile human desires with the moral order of the universe.
"Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere"
"Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere"
June 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
In Essay on Man, Pope presents a philosophical argument in poetic form. Epistle IV focuses on "Happiness", trying to reconcile human desires with the moral order of the universe.
"Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere"
"Fixed to no spot is Happiness sincere"
🌊 Summer whispers: "Magic lives here."
Answer the call with "Waterlogged Crochet Hearts" — a hauntingly beautiful story.
✨ Where a red crochet dress becomes a sea-spell...
☀️ And the Mediterranean sun ignites what logic can’t explain.
Coming soon on youtube.com/@nayanomikou...
Answer the call with "Waterlogged Crochet Hearts" — a hauntingly beautiful story.
✨ Where a red crochet dress becomes a sea-spell...
☀️ And the Mediterranean sun ignites what logic can’t explain.
Coming soon on youtube.com/@nayanomikou...
June 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🌊 Summer whispers: "Magic lives here."
Answer the call with "Waterlogged Crochet Hearts" — a hauntingly beautiful story.
✨ Where a red crochet dress becomes a sea-spell...
☀️ And the Mediterranean sun ignites what logic can’t explain.
Coming soon on youtube.com/@nayanomikou...
Answer the call with "Waterlogged Crochet Hearts" — a hauntingly beautiful story.
✨ Where a red crochet dress becomes a sea-spell...
☀️ And the Mediterranean sun ignites what logic can’t explain.
Coming soon on youtube.com/@nayanomikou...