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 Restoration of Orizon, Part 3 of this week's series: The Prism of the Deep. Felix, Juno, and Widget stepped out of the Gilded Needle and into the streets of Orizon. To their surprise, the city was not filled with water; it was...

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 Descent of the Gilded Needle, Part 2 of this week's series: The Prism of the Deep. The journey to the deep trench required a vessel much stronger than a standard diving bell. Felix spent three days in the harbor, working along...

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 Symphony of the Seven Suns, Part 3 of this week's series: The Bureau of Forgotten Miracles. The room was shaking now, the massive gears of the clockwork heart groaning as they tried to turn. The Curator stood back, his lantern...

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 Case of the Caffeinated Comet, Part 1 of this week's series: The Bureau of Forgotten Miracles. Oliver sat at his desk, which was currently buried under a mountain of paperwork that had absolutely nothing to do with taxes and 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 Masterpiece of Misfit Metal, Part 3 of this week's series: The Junk-Yard of Infinite Inventions. The basement of the vault was a labyrinth of humming machinery and spinning gears. Leo and Maya ran past massive pistons that mov...

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 Forge of Forgotten Fires, Part 2 of this week's series: The Junk-Yard of Infinite Inventions. The iron door did not open with a creak or a groan. Instead, it dissolved. The metal simply turned into a fine, grey powder that fel...

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 Compass of Cragged Coasts, Part 1 of this week's series: The Junk-Yard of Infinite Inventions. Leo lived in a world where nothing was ever truly thrown away. He resided in the Salt-Flats, a vast expanse of rust and discarded m...

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 Spark of the Copper Citadel, Part 3 of this week's series: The Static Sands. The Copper Citadel loomed out of the swirling dust like a giant, metallic mountain. Its walls were covered in intricate circuits and massive lightnin...

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 Current of the Crimson Dunes, Part 2 of this week's series: The Static Sands. The sand-skiff was a marvel of questionable engineering. It looked like a flat-bottomed boat with two large, rotating fans at the back and a sail ma...

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 Lightning Rod of Lost Luck, Part 1 of this week's series: The Static Sands. Jasper lived in a place where the ground was not made of dirt, but of millions of tiny glass beads. They called it the Shimmering Desert, a vast expan...

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 Heavy Lifting, Part 3 of this week's series: The Case of the Vanishing Gravity. The Sky-Piercer Tower was the tallest structure in Orbit City, a needle of glass and steel that pierced the very edge of the atmosphere. At the ve...

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 Floating Fountain, Part 2 of this week's series: The Case of the Vanishing Gravity. The Low-G Lounge was located so far underground that the patrons often forgot which way was north. It was a place where the walls were padded,...

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 Weight of the World, Part 1 of this week's series: The Case of the Vanishing Gravity. Cletus Vance was not the kind of private investigator who walked down rain-slicked alleys with a collar turned up against the wind. Mostly b...

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 Weight of Unfinished Business, Part 3 of this week's series: The Audit of Anomalous Artifacts. The truck was a standard silver transport, the kind you see every day delivering packages to people who are eagerly awaiting their...

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 Canopy of Inverted Rain, Part 2 of this week's series: The Audit of Anomalous Artifacts. Juniper was the kind of agent who could walk through a laser-grid security system while drinking a cup of coffee and not spill a single d...

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 Kettle of Stored Conversations, Part 1 of this week's series: The Audit of Anomalous Artifacts. Leo did not work for the police, the fire department, or the tax office, though he wore a gray suit that suggested he was very int...

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 Customs Agent's Worst Nightmare, Part 3 of this week's series: The Midnight Curfew for Intergalactic Tourists. The Earth gateway was a shimmering ring of golden light, suspended in the dark void of the solar system. It was 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 tonight's story is titled The Hitchhiker in the Glove Box, Part 2 of this week's series: The Midnight Curfew for Intergalactic Tourists. Jax didn't jump. He fell. It was a subtle distinction, mostly involving a lack of grace and a lot of undignified yellin...

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 Souvenir That Wouldn't Quit, Part 1 of this week's series: The Midnight Curfew for Intergalactic Tourists. Jax was not having a particularly successful Tuesday. He stood in the middle of the Starlight Bazaar, a sprawling marke...

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 Auditor of All Things, Part 3 of this week's series: The Bureau of Unlikely Occurrences. Arthur climbed back up the stairs, his heart drumming against his ribs. The office felt different now. The carpet poetry had escalated fr...

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 Ledger of Lost Tuesdays, Part 2 of this week's series: The Bureau of Unlikely Occurrences. The basement of the Bureau was not a place for the faint of heart or those with a sensitive sense of smell. it smelled like old library...

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 Espresso of Eternal Echoes, Part 1 of this week's series: The Bureau of Unlikely Occurrences. Arthur was no hero. He was just an intern. Specifically, he was the junior assistant to the deputy director of the Bureau of Unlikel...

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 Horizon of Return, Part 3 of this week's series: The Chronos Compass of Azure Deep. The Guardian didn't attack. It simply drifted alongside the ship, its massive fins creating ripples in the silver water that looked like liqui...

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 Whirlpool of Yesterday, Part 2 of this week's series: The Chronos Compass of Azure Deep. The Cinder Queen had been sailing for three days when the sea stopped being water and started being memory. The waves around the ship beg...

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 Iron Peaks and the Weaver of Shadows, Part 3 of this week's series: The Echoes of Aetheria. The transition from the salt spray of the ocean to the biting cold of the Iron Peaks was brutal. Kalen and Lyra traded their sea gear...