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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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3:13

The Broken Tuba Book

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/10/12

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Mrs. Hemlock was a librarian unlike any other. While most librarians cherished silence, Mrs. Hemlock, a tiny, bespectacled owl, adored laughter. Her library, the "Giggle and Glee Book Nook," was supposed to echo with happy sounds, but lately, it was eerily quiet. The children, usually a boisterous bunch, were too busy staring at their glowing screens."Oh dear," Mrs. Hemlock hooted sadly, polishing a dusty joke

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3:37

Mr. Flourish's Powdery Winter Coat

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/10/11

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Mr. Flourish was, by trade, a baker. By nature, he was a slightly terrified, meticulously tidy badger who harbored a secret, crippling fear of… flour. Not the taste, mind you, but the mess. The tiny, insidious white particles that got everywhere, clung to everything, and absolutely refused to be contained.His bakery, "The Crumbly Corner," was always spotless, but Mr. Flourish himself wore a full hazmat suit

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3:26

Ignis the Dragon's Disco Dilemma

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/10/10

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Ignis was a magnificent dragon: emerald scales, powerful wings, and a roar that could rattle mountains. He was, by all accounts, a perfectly respectable, fire-breathing beast. But Ignis had a secret dream: he wanted to be a butterfly.He spent hours in his lair, attempting to flit delicately, much to the confusion of his enormous, leathery wings. He tried to sip nectar from giant flowers (usually flattening them

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3:25

Clara, Nimbus, and the Heavily Weighted Hats

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/10/09

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Clara the chameleon loved her garden. It was a riot of color, filled with bright flowers and juicy beetles. Her biggest problem, however, was Nimbus, a small, fluffy, very mischievous cloud who floated just above her property. Nimbus had a strange hobby: collecting hats. Not just any hats, but Clara’s hats.Every morning, Clara would wake up to find her favorite gardening hat missing. Then her sun hat. Then her

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2:55

Tiberius and Lumina's Disco Disturbance

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/10/08

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!The lighthouse on Whispering Point was usually a place of quiet, rhythmic beams, guiding ships safely through the night. Its lamp, a magnificent, ancient mechanism named Lumina, was supposed to emit a steady, comforting glow. However, Lumina had developed a secret passion for disco.One moonless night, instead of her usual steady pulse, Lumina began to flash in a wild, uncontrolled sequence of greens, purples,

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3:00

Grizzly George and the Art of the Dramatic Yawn

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/10/07

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Grizzly George was a bear of impressive bulk and even more impressive forgetfulness. Every autumn, like all sensible bears, George was supposed to curl up in his cozy cave for a long winter nap. But this year, something was terribly wrong."Now, what was it again?" George mumbled, pacing his cave. "Do I count sheep? Do I sing a lullaby? Do I… do I tie myself to a tree until spring?"His best friend, Penelope the

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2:45

Cosmo, Mortimer, and the Perfect Hat-Hut

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/10/06

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Cosmo the poodle was an impeccably groomed dog with a tiny, sophisticated wardrobe. His most treasured item was a gorgeous, striped sun hat with a wide, floppy brim. The problem was, Cosmo insisted on wearing it indoors, everywhere, all the time.He wore it while sleeping. He wore it while trying to eat his kibble (a tricky maneuver involving tilting his head sharply). He even wore it in the bathtub.His owner,

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2:51

Professor Quibble's Enthusiastic Vortex

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/10/05

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Professor Quentin Quibble was a genius. Or, at least, he thought he was. His laboratory, a ramshackle shed at the edge of the whispering woods, was filled with whirring contraptions and bubbling beakers. The problem was, every single one of Professor Quibble's inventions seemed to invent only trouble.His "Automatic Toast Butterer" once buttered the entire ceiling. His "Self-Folding Laundry Machine" merely tied

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2:55

The Squirrels and the Time-Remote

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/10/04

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Nutkin and Hazel were a pair of siblings whose lives revolved around the annual autumn nut-gathering. It was a race against time, with squirrels from all over the forest competing for the tastiest acorns and walnuts. This year, they were off to a terrible start. The best nuts were being scooped up by their rivals, the Chippers.One afternoon, while foraging near an abandoned picnic blanket, Nutkin found something

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3:06

The Lighthouse and the Lost Octopus

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/10/03

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Silas the lighthouse keeper lived a simple life. He polished the light, wrote letters to his sister, and made sure the enormous, glowing lamp was always ready to guide ships safely to shore. His days were quiet and predictable, which was just how he liked them. One blustery morning, he found a bottle washed up on the shore. Inside was a tiny rolled-up note. He uncorked the bottle and unrolled the paper.The note

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3:01

The Knight Who Feared Fluff

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/10/02

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Sir Gideon was the bravest knight in the land. He had defeated the Great Dragon of the East, outsmarted the Wicked Sorcerer of the West, and even negotiated a truce with the grumpy River Trolls. There was only one thing that terrified him: puppies. He was currently on a quest to escort the Royal Pup, a tiny ball of fluff named Buster, to the neighboring kingdom.Buster was a small, adorable Cavalier King Charles

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2:57

The Jazzy Sloth

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/10/01

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Milo was a sloth of simple pleasures. He enjoyed a good nap, a slow-moving leaf, and the quiet hum of the forest. He did not, however, enjoy anything fast. One afternoon, while lazily inching his way along a branch, he came across a discarded musical instrument. It was a golden, curvy thing with a lot of buttons. A trumpet. Milo had never seen one before, and he carefully held it, his claws curled around the

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11:23

The 300th Roll

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/09/30

This very special 300th episode is dedicated to Sarah, who not only guest-stars in this episode doing four different voices, but is also endlessly supportive and patient with me doing this show, even when she just wants to get out the door and I’m finishing an edit.Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!The scent of stale pizza, Mountain Dew, and unwashed dice bags hung heavy in Mark’s basement. It was a familiar aroma, one that had permeated so many

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3:15

The Wizard and the Wobbly Puddle

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/09/29

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Alistair the wizard was having a very bad day. He’d woken up on the wrong side of his enchanted bed, his potion cabinet had inexplicably arranged itself by color instead of alphabet, and worst of all, his grumpy pet dragon, Smolder, refused to breathe fire on the morning oatmeal to give it that perfectly toasted crust. Alistair decided to cheer them both up by attempting a "Sparkling Dragon Rejuvenation" spell

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3:08

The Book of Very Bad Jokes

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/09/28

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Mr. Quill was a book binder with a problem. He had just finished a beautiful, leather-bound volume, but the book itself was a dud. Its pages, instead of being blank for a new story, were filled with the worst jokes Mr. Quill had ever heard. Every time he opened it, a new one would leap out.“What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?” he had read one morning. “A dino-snore!” The pages rattled with what sounded like

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2:57

Thelonius the Tumbling Teapot

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/09/27

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Thelonius was not an ordinary teapot. He lived on a high shelf in a little antique shop, and while other teapots dreamed of serving fancy teas, Thelonius dreamed of being a professional whistler. He loved the sound of a good, clear whistle, the way it could rise and fall like a bird in the wind. The problem was, Thelonius couldn't whistle. He was a teapot, and all teapots can do is steam.He'd practice all day

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3:37

The Shadow Showdown

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/09/26

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!In the town of Gleam, where shadows had their own playful personalities, lived a timid person named Penelope. Her shadow, however, was a mischievous prankster named Flicker. While Penelope was quiet and reserved, Flicker was loud and boisterous, often waving at people and impersonating other shadows.Penelope was trying to befriend a man named Julian, whose shadow, a dignified fellow named Sterling, always stood

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3:40

The Salty Squawkers

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/09/25

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!On a tiny floating island, no bigger than a large pancake, lived a grumpy chef named Jasper. His restaurant, "The Salty Spatula," was renowned for its exquisite, gourmet dishes, but his tranquility was constantly disrupted by a flock of opinionated seagulls. These weren't ordinary seagulls; they communicated in perfect, rhyming couplets."We want a dish that's truly grand, a tasty treat, by human hand!" one

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3:50

The Diary of a Wobbly World

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/09/24

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!The town of Serenity was known for its quiet libraries and even quieter librarians. One of the quietest was a woman named Cora, who possessed the ability to read a book just by touching it. This made her the most efficient librarian in all of Serenity. She could tell you if a book was good, bad, or merely average just by shelving it.One rainy Tuesday, a mysterious, unmarked leather-bound diary was dropped off at

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3:38

The Robo-Rhapsody

A Bedtime Story ·

2025/09/23

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Jasper was a boy with an extraordinary ambition: to win the annual "Most Peculiar Pet" contest. His pet was a robot named Bolt, a contraption of polished chrome and blinking lights that could only communicate through interpretive dance. Bolt was a fantastic friend, but his dances were… well, they were a mess. One dance looked like a spider trying to untangle itself from a kite string. Another looked like a

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