Fiction Stories & Meditations

There's nothing like a good bedtime story to grab hold of a racing mind and calm it down. Enjoy these works of fiction, many of them only available here!
Feb. 2, 2022

Winnie The Pooh - Chapters 1 and 2 (Listen To Sleep Plus)

Enjoy entire classic books read chapter by chapter each week on Listen To Sleep Plus.
Jan. 30, 2022

#152 - A Thing Of Beauty

A sweet, sleepy story about finding the soft heart of beauty in our sometimes hard world.
Jan. 23, 2022

#150 - Momotaro

A Japanese fairy tale about a magical boy who was born from a peach.
Jan. 9, 2022

#146 - The Travelling Doll

A sweet, sleepy tale from the early 1900s about a girl who lives on a fishing boat with her family and her dog.
Jan. 2, 2022

#144 - Prince Ring

A sleepy Icelandic fairy tale about a prince and his magical dog.
Dec. 24, 2021

#143 - A Christmas Carol - Part Five

The sleepy conclusion of the Charles Dickens holiday classic.
Dec. 19, 2021

#142 - A Christmas Carol - Part Four

A sleepy reading of part four of the Charles Dickens holiday classic.
Dec. 12, 2021

#141 - A Christmas Carol - Part Three

A sleepy reading of part three of the Charles Dickens holiday classic.
Dec. 5, 2021

#140 - A Christmas Carol - Part Two

A sleepy reading of part two of the Charles Dickens holiday classic.
Nov. 28, 2021

#139 - A Christmas Carol - Part One

By multiple requests, a sleepy reading of the Charles Dickens holiday classic.
Nov. 21, 2021

#138 - Tom's Thanksgiving

A sweet, sleepy story about a Thanksgiving surprise in early 1900s Boston.
Nov. 7, 2021

#136 - The Schoolmistress

A sleepy classic by Anton Chekov about a morning in the life of a late 19th century schoolmistress in tsarist Russia.
Oct. 31, 2021

#135 - The Cat That Walked By Himself

A sleepy tale about how cats and people might first have come to live together.
Oct. 24, 2021

#134 - Ib and Little Christina

A sleepy, bittersweet fairy tale about two star-crossed lovers by Hans Christian Andersen.
Oct. 17, 2021

#133 - Her First Ball

A sweet, sleepy story by Katherine Mansfield about a young country woman's outing to her first ball in the big city.
Oct. 13, 2021

The Children of Odin - Part 1 (Listen To Sleep Plus)

This is a free preview of Listen To Sleep Plus. We just finished Peter Pan, and now we're starting The Children of Odin, a great book of Norse tales.
Oct. 3, 2021

#131 - The Werewolf

A sleepy (and not too creepy) werewolf romance for spooky season; think Romeo meets Mr. Hyde.
Sept. 26, 2021

#130 - Chess

A mystical tale about an old man living in the woods who builds a chess set that changes his life.
Sept. 21, 2021

#129 - Guest Artist Kristof Hajos - The Story of the Siren - Bonus Episode

A sleepy classic by E.M. Forster read by singer/songwriter Kristof Hajos.
Sept. 19, 2021

#128 - The Interval

A sleepy (not scary) ghost story about a woman's search for a message from her lost husband.
Sept. 12, 2021

#127 - Odin and the Wolf

A sleepy viking tale about Odin's search for wisdom and a magical wolf who would not be tamed.
Sept. 5, 2021

#126 - A Fairy's Blunder

A sleepy fairy tale about a good-hearted fairy who tries to help, but winds up making things a little worse first.
Aug. 22, 2021

#124 - The Bat and Belfry Inn

A sleepy tale about a couple on a drive through the Welsh countryside who come upon a slightly bizarre but friendly inn.
Aug. 8, 2021

#122 - The Velveteen Rabbit

The sleepy classic about a toy rabbit who becomes real.