A Bedtime Story

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Sunken Spire and the Silver Lute, Part 2 of this week's series: The Echoes of Aetheria. The sea was unnaturally calm as the Kestrel glided over the waves. The sea glass compass on the deck hummed a low, constant note that shif...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Brass Key and the Bottled Wind, Part 1 of this week's series: The Echoes of Aetheria. In the coastal town of Driftwood, where the sea salt settles on your skin like a second layer of clothing, lived a young man named Kalen. Ka...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Pinnacle of Aurum, Part 3 of this week's series: The Lighthouse Keepers of Lunar Bay. June held the black feather tight, its smooth surface oddly warm in her palm. Theodora's words echoed: trust the old paths. She closed her e...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Cavern of Whispering Maps, Part 2 of this week's series: The Lighthouse Keepers of Lunar Bay. The abandoned mine shaft was everything Silas had warned her it would be: a rusted, skeletal structure clinging to the cliff face, s...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Mystery of the Missing Spark, Part 1 of this week's series: The Lighthouse Keepers of Lunar Bay. The town of Lunar Bay wasn't famous for much, which, as far as seventeen-year-old June Delphine was concerned, was its chief char...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Refund at the End of the Universe, Part 3 of this week's series: The Inventory of Impossible Things. The shimmer in the air was no longer a subtle effect. It looked like the world was being viewed through a very thick, very di...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Gravity-Defying Ottoman, Part 2 of this week's series: The Inventory of Impossible Things. The sign Julian had painted in the driveway was simple. It said: Unique Household Items. Very Cheap. No Questions Asked. He figured the...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and before we get started, a quick apology for last week's unplanned re-runs. I was extremely sick, and just couldn't make my recording schedule happen. So, I decided to re-run the original Tales of Veridia series from season 1, which was the inspiration for s...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Note: I’ve been quite sick for the last week and cannot record new episodes. Please enjoy this week’s re-run of Tales of Veridia - the original inspiration for season 2’s three-part format! Additional Voices by Sarah Schliesmann The entrance to the griffin’s lair loomed before Thalion, Elira, and Finnick, a d...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Note: I’ve been quite sick for the last week and cannot record new episodes. Please enjoy this week’s re-run of Tales of Veridia - the original inspiration for season 2’s three-part format! Additional Voices by Sarah Schliesmann Day One The morning sun broke over the horizon, painting the sky in hues of orang...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Note: I’ve been quite sick for the last week and cannot record new episodes. Please enjoy this week’s re-run of Tales of Veridia - the original inspiration for season 2’s three-part format! Additional Voices by Sarah Schliesmann The dimly lit tavern buzzed with the chatter of patrons, the clinking of mugs, an...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Starry Override, Part 3 of this week's series: The Neon Nocturne of Neo-Veridia. The top of the Prism Tower was a forest of antennas and satellite dishes, all humming with the quiet power of a city’s worth of data. Jax stood o...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Ascent of the Glass Giant, Part 2 of this week's series: The Neon Nocturne of Neo-Veridia. The Prism Tower loomed over Neo-Veridia like a jagged needle made of mirrors. Jax stood at the base, looking up at the hundreds of floo...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Ghost in the Vending Machine, Part 1 of this week's series: The Neon Nocturne of Neo-Veridia. Jax lived in a city where the lights never actually turned off, they just shifted from a bright clinical white to a moody, synth-wav...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled "The Final Wind-Up," Part 3 of this week's series: The Midnight Curfew and the Clockwork City. The elevator doors hissed open, and Mayor Sterling stepped out, his polished boots clicking rhythmically despite the chaos. He looked a...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled "The Mechanical Menace of Main Street," Part 2 of this week's series: The Midnight Curfew and the Clockwork City. Leo stood at the edge of the underground miniature city, his jaw hanging open in a way that would have made his moth...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled "The Key to the Copper Gates," Part 1 of this week's series: The Midnight Curfew and the Clockwork City. In the town of Oakhaven, the sun did not set so much as it was told to leave. The town was run by a man named Mayor Sterling,...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Static and the Song, Part 3 of this week's series: The Frequency of Forgotten Things. The wind at the top of the bridge was fierce, whipping Juno’s hair across her face like a lash. Below them, the river was a churning ribbon...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Echo in the Alley, Part 2 of this week's series: The Frequency of Forgotten Things. Juno found Felix in his usual habitat: a garage that looked like a graveyard for television sets and microwave ovens. The air smelled of solde...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Needle and the Void, Part 1 of this week's series: The Frequency of Forgotten Things. Juno was the kind of teenager who preferred the company of inanimate objects to actual people, mostly because objects rarely asked you about...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Archives of Alistair, Part 3 of this week's series: The Midnight Museum and the Lost Key. The service elevator descended with a groan of metal and a sound like a thousand angry wasps, finally depositing Eliza onto the third su...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Velociraptor's Visitor, Part 2 of this week's series: The Midnight Museum and the Lost Key. The Natural History wing smelled distinctly of ozone, formaldehyde, and the faintest hint of old wood polish. As Eliza stepped through...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Curator's Catastrophe, Part 1 of this week's series: The Midnight Museum and the Lost Key. Eliza Finch was, by all accounts, a very enthusiastic night curator for the City Museum of Curiosities. Her enthusiasm was, perhaps, sl...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Keeper's Command, Part 3 of this week's series: The Legend of the Unblinking Lighthouse. Leila returned to Stoney Point with the shell locket tucked securely in the pocket of her oilskin coat. The sea was calmer now, the waves...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Glass Thief, Part 2 of this week's series: The Legend of the Unblinking Lighthouse. Leila was not prone to flights of fancy, but she couldn't dismiss the silent shell. The moment the light had stuttered, the shell’s incessant...