A Bedtime Story

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Clyde was a cloud, but he was a cloud with a secret: he was afraid of heights. While all the other clouds drifted high in the sky, fluffy and carefree, Clyde stayed low to the ground. He was a small, puffy cloud who spent his days hovering just above the treetops, trembling a little whenever a strong gust of...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Gnorp the goblin was, by all accounts, a very grumpy fellow. He lived in a dark cave with mossy walls and a floor covered in damp, rotting leaves. He hated sunshine and cheerful birdsong. He liked the quiet of his cave and the smell of mold. His neighbor, a tiny, happy pixie named Poppy, kept trying to be his...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Robby was a tiny robot with big dreams. He lived on the beach, powered by a small solar panel on his back, and his biggest dream was to build the most magnificent sandcastle the world had ever seen. He was a meticulous builder, with tiny metal arms that could scoop sand with incredible precision. But there wa...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Skipper was not like the other squirrels in the park. While they were busy burying nuts and chattering about the best oak trees, Skipper dreamed of the sea. His biggest wish was to be a pirate. He’d seen a picture of a ship in a discarded newspaper and had been hooked ever since. He loved the thought of a lif...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Wilfred the wizard was, for lack of a better word, a little bit forgetful. His beard was a tangle of gray and his robes were perpetually dusted with some unidentifiable powder, but his biggest problem was his spells. He was always losing them. His spellbook was a disaster, a glorious tome of leather and parch...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Lily was folding laundry when she found it: a bright green sock, unlike any other sock she had ever seen. It was striped with yellow and had a small embroidered smiley face on the toe. She was missing a sock, so she slipped it on her left foot, and pulled the matching blue one onto her right foot. As soon as...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Beatrice the badger was a baker, and a magnificent one at that. Her honey cakes were the fluffiest in the forest, and her acorn tarts were so good they would make a chipmunk swoon. She had opened her own bakery, a small, cozy place with a bright red door. But there was a problem: no one ever came. Day after d...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Roscoe, a young bear with remarkably soft paws and an even softer heart, had a big problem: he couldn't roar. All the other bear cubs in Grizzly Gulch could let out magnificent, rumbling roars that made the leaves tremble. Roscoe, however, could only manage a tiny, embarrassing squeak that sounded more like a...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Penelope Pipkin loved puddles. Not just any puddles, mind you, but the extra-squishy, mud-sploshing kind that appeared after a really good rainstorm. One Tuesday morning, after a night of enthusiastic downpour, Penelope discovered the most magnificent puddle she had ever seen. It stretched across her entire b...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Rosie Winkle was a baker with a secret ingredient: moonlight. Every evening, she’d leave her freshly baked Moonbeam Muffins on the windowsill to soak up the gentle glow, making them extra fluffy and slightly shimmery. Tonight, however, disaster had struck. One of her prize Moonbeam Muffins, the biggest and mo...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Bartholomew Bumble, a boy whose pockets were always filled with interesting pebbles and slightly squashed biscuits, loved balloons. He didn’t just like them; he adored them. Red ones, blue ones, ones shaped like grumpy octopuses – he loved them all. His greatest dream was to have a balloon so big, it could li...

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Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Unit 734, a small, boxy robot with blinking blue lights for eyes, was built for logic. Its circuits hummed with facts and figures. But one day, its creator, a kindly inventor named Professor Piffle, gave it a new directive: "Unit 734, I need you to write a poem for my niece’s birthday! A lovely, rhyming poem!...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Frederick Featherbottom was an inventor, but not a very successful one. His latest contraption, the “Self-Stirring Soup Spoon,” had only succeeded in flinging pea soup across his entire kitchen, coating his prize-winning pet goldfish, Gilly, in a fine green mist. Today, however, Frederick had a brilliant idea...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Barnaby Button, a wizard whose spells often veered off-course (he once turned his teacup into a tap-dancing toad), was having a particularly wobbly day. His latest attempt at a levitation charm had only succeeded in making his favorite armchair float exactly three inches off the ground, then rotate slowly cou...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Agatha Buttercup was a collector of peculiar antiques. Her little cottage was crammed with oddities: a music box that played only the sound of a grumpy badger, a chair that vibrated whenever someone told a joke, and her most prized possession, a tarnished silver teapot that had a curious habit of humming. One...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Wallace, a wombat with whiskers so long they sometimes tripped him up, was a creature of constant worry. He worried about the sky falling, about running out of tasty roots, and most of all, he worried about his whiskers getting tangled. One particularly sunny Tuesday, Wallace woke up with a terrible feeling....

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Pip, a squirrel with an insatiable sweet tooth and a bushy tail that often got in his way, lived in a cozy oak tree at the edge of Whispering Woods. One sunny morning, Pip overheard two campers discussing their secret stash of “super-fluffy, melt-in-your-mouth marshmallows.” Pip’s ears perked up, and a mischi...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Cumulus was a cloud. A perfectly respectable, fluffy, white cloud. But he was also terribly bored. All the other clouds gossiped about rain, or complained about wind, or simply drifted aimlessly. Cumulus longed for more. "I wish," he puffed softly, "I could make something beautiful." He watched the sunset, th...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Deep in the bustling city park, where pigeons strutted and children laughed, lived a squirrel named Nutmeg. Nutmeg was known for two things: her extraordinary ability to hoard acorns (she had a secret, acorn-only vault) and her absolute silence. While other squirrels chattered and chirped, Nutmeg communicated...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Casper, though he was a ghost, was terribly shy. And even worse at scaring. He’d try a mournful moan, but it often came out sounding like a squeaky toy. His attempts at rattling chains usually ended with him tangling himself up. He was, in essence, a very sweet, very ineffective specter. One evening, attempti...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Old Farmer Giles was a kind man, with a laugh like a rusty tractor and a heart as big as his pumpkin patch. But Farmer Giles was also, famously, forgetful. He’d leave his spectacles on the sheep, his hat in the chicken coop, and once, he planted his boots instead of potatoes. Perched on the hill overlooking h...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! In the sunniest corner of the world lay the Giggle Garden, a place where flowers didn't just bloom, they giggled. Tiny bells on their petals chimed with soft chuckles, and the leaves rustled with whispery snickers. This was a problem for Finnegan, the garden's guardian gnome. He was extremely sensitive to noi...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Puff, despite being a magnificent dragon with scales the color of molten gold, had absolutely no interest in hoarding treasure. Gold was boring. Jewels were too sparkly. Puff’s true passion was baking. He loved the smell of rising dough, the sizzle of sugar, and the comforting warmth of a roaring oven (which,...

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Agent Mittens was a cat of refined tastes, which mostly involved napping on sunbeams and demanding tuna. He was also, by his own estimation, a detective of the highest caliber, though his only case so far had been "The Case of the Missing Sardines” Which was eventually found to have been eaten by his human, a...