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A Bedtime Story

Matthew Mitchell

A Bedtime Story is a short-form nightly show featuring a unique tale generated by AI, then edited and performed by Matthew Mitchell.

fiction stories for kids

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2:35

The Wizard of Whimsical Wonders

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/31

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 parchment held together with string and covered in thousands of tiny, colorful sticky notes that screamed

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2:13

Lily and the Singing Sock

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2025/07/30

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 her foot was inside the green sock, she felt a strange, happy vibration. Then, it started to hum.Not a

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2:50

Beatrice's Big Bakery

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/29

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 day, Beatrice would bake a fresh batch of treats, and day after day, they would sit on her counter, getting

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2:45

The Bear Who Couldn't Roar

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/28

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 rusty hinge.He tried everything. He gargled with honey. He practiced in front of a mirror, puffing out

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3:25

Penelope's Peculiar Puddle Problem

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/27

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 backyard, shimmering like a giant, murky mirror.“Oh, glorious!” she squealed, pulling on her brightest

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3:05

The Case of the Missing Moonbeam Muffin

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/26

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 most shimmery of the batch, was gone!“Oh, crumbs!” Rosie exclaimed, her flour-dusted hands flying to her

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3:30

Bartholomew's Baffling Balloon Bonanza

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/25

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 lift him clear over his grumpy Aunt Mildred’s impossibly tall fence.One sunny Saturday, Bartholomew’s

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3:10

The Dragon Who Loved Doo-Wop

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/24

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!

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3:42

The Robot Who Couldn't Rhyme

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/23

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!"Unit 734, or “Seven” as the Professor affectionately called it, immediately accessed its poetry

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3:17

Frederick's Fabulous Flying Fan

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/22

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: a flying fan! Not a fan that cooled you down, but a fan that could actually fly.He spent weeks

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3:02

The Wobbly Wizard and the Whistlepig

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/21

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 counter-clockwise. “Blast and botheration!” he muttered, adjusting his crooked spectacles. He was supposed

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3:23

The Time-Traveling Teapot Tango

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/20

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 rainy afternoon, Agatha was dusting the teapot when it began to hum louder than usual, a strange,

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2:47

The Worrying Wombat's Whiskers

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/19

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. He just knew, deep in his wombat bones, that today was the day his whiskers would become hopelessly

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2:35

The Great Marshmallow Mishap

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/18

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 mischievous glint appeared in his beady eyes. Marshmallows! He’d never tasted one, but the description alone

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2:51

Cumulus the Canvas Cloud

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/17

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, the sky ablaze with oranges and purples, and an idea sparked within his misty heart. "I shall be an

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4:10

The Talking Top Hat and the Silent Squirrel

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/16

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 entirely through interpretive tail flicks and very expressive eyebrow wiggles.One blustery afternoon, a

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2:57

The Helpful Haunt and the Hoover

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/15

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, attempting a truly terrifying "BOO!" (which sounded more like a muffled sneeze), he accidentally phased directly

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4:15

The Whispering Windmill and the Forgetful Farmer

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/14

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 his farm was a grand, wooden windmill named Gusty. Gusty wasn’t just any windmill; he had a deep, rumbling

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3:27

The Giggle Garden's Grumbly Guardian

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/13

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 noise."Far too much merriment!" Finnegan would grumble, sweeping leaves with a broom made of dandelion

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2:49

Puff the Magic Pastry Chef

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/07/12

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, being a dragon, he provided himself). One sunny morning, while kneading a particularly enthusiastic

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