Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone in which nothing much happens. You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nikolai. I write and read everything you hear on nothing much happens. Audio engineering is by Bob Widdersheim. We give to a different

charity each week and this week we are giving to save a fox sanctuary.

They work to rescue and provide forever homes for captive-born non-relicable wildlife.

You can learn more about them in our show notes.

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Now, we need just enough entertainment, engagement, stuff happening to keep your mind gently focused.

Not too much so that you end up staying awake, but enough that you don't wander into

aimless thought. And I have that for you. All you have to do is listen. I'll tell the story twice, and I'll go a little slower the second time through.

If you wake later in the night and start to feel the engines in your mind

revving back up. Just turn on an episode. You'll drop right back off. Sometimes just thinking

through the details of a story or even a pleasant memory will do the same.

Our story tonight is called All Hallows Eve at the Inn. And it's the third in our special Halloween series this year.

It's about the innkeeper and her trusty sidekick Sycamore as they ready the inn for guests

on a dark October Eve.

It's also about carved pumpkins that line the great staircase.

A blurry face in an old photo.

A bubbling cauldron of punch in the ballroom.

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