449 – A New England Nun

Sleepy

Otis Gray

Alternative Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey, my name's Otis Gray, and you're listening to Sleepy.
0:12.3	A podcast where I read old books to help you get to sleep.
0:29.7	I'm going to continue to read from some great female authors from the public domain,
0:32.3	which I've very much been enjoying doing.
0:36.3	And this was one that I've been looking forward to reading for a long time,
0:38.9	which is a short story called A New England Nun by Mary E. Wilkins. And before we get to this lovely bedtime story,
0:48.8	which I really, really enjoyed, I just want to profoundly thank all of our patrons on patreon.com,
0:56.8	which is a website where you can go and pledge a couple bucks for an ad-free version of the show.
1:03.4	So, this week's wonderful new patrons.
1:08.0	Anya Kuzik, Mark Hananchi, Kristen Russell, Sharon Mason, and Judith.
1:18.3	Thank you all so, so much for being a part of making this show.
1:22.5	It really, really means a lot.
1:24.8	Thank you.
1:27.1	And for anyone who doesn't know,
1:29.2	the names that I just read are brand new supporters of Sleepy on patreon.com,
1:34.7	which is a lovely site that allows you to directly support the people
1:38.6	who make the stuff that you like.
1:41.2	It's super easy to do it,
1:42.7	and you get cool perks in exchange for donating like I said at two
1:48.0	dollars you get an ad-free version of sleepy um five dollars you get access to our poetry feed
1:54.4	but no matter how much you donate even a dollar it goes a really long way and uh no matter how much you donate i will read your
2:03.0	name on this show after you do so if you'd like to be a part of making this show and have your
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