Hey, my name's Otis Gray, and you're listening to Sleepy.

A podcast where I read old books to help you get to sleep,

and this is a midweek short story for you.

Tonight... is a midweek short story for you. Tonight, for our first short story post-spooky season,

I have a short story from a writer that we've actually never read on the show before,

which, as you know, is something I really, really enjoy doing.

It's very, very calm and boring, honestly.

So I think it's going to be perfect to go to sleep, too.

And before we get to our bedtime reading,

I just want to profoundly thank all of our patrons on

patreon.com, which is a website where you can pledge a couple bucks for an ad-free version of

sleepy. Thank you so much if you're a patron. It means so much to me that you support this show.

So thank you.

And if you have no idea what I'm saying right now,

Patreon is just a website that allows you to directly support the people who make the stuff that you like.

So if you like sleepy, maybe helps you get a better night's rest, maybe helps you wake up

more refreshed the next day, then you can be a part of making the show by going to patreon.com

and donating even a dollar a month. Like I said, at $2 a month, you get access to the ad-free version of the show.

$5 gets you access to our poetry feed.

But even $1 means so much to me.

And even $1, no matter how much you give, I will very happily read your name in the opening

credits of our next Sunday show.

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