Welcome to Sleep Whispers.

I'm Harris, and I created this podcast to help you too de-stress, relax, and sleep.

So go ahead, lean back, put up your feet, and settle into my world of whispers.

I hope this episode distracts and relaxes your overactive brain squirrels.

Tonight's story, The Magic Bonbons, is another short story by El Frank Baum, who is best known as the author of The Wizard of Oz.

Here's a summary of the story to give you a, I guess, a mental blueprint of the storyline.

And it begins with a woman consulting an old chemist who also dabbles in magic.

She is very much wanting to be a famous performer, but she doesn't really have any talent.

So the chemist creates some magical candies that will give her talents.

Each candy represents a different talent.

So there's one candy for each of the following talents.

Dancing, singing, poetry recitation, piano playing, and high kicking.

Well, she accidentally leaves the candies in a store,

and the candies are found by little girl.

The little girl brings the candies home,

eats one of the candies,

and begins playing the piano perfectly.

Her father then arrives home with two dinner guests,

and now some of the adults eat a candy each, and the house turns chaotic with everyone doing different types of performances.

But one of the dinner guests, who is a senator, doesn't eat his candy. Instead, he puts it in his pocket.

And the senator is scheduled to make a major speech the next day. And he ends up eating his

candy right before giving that speech.

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