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 all the stories you hear on nothing much happens.

Audio engineering is by Bob Widdersheim.

We are bringing you an encore episode tonight, meaning that this story originally aired at some point in the past.

It could have been recorded with different equipment in a different location.

And since I'm a person and not a computer, I sometimes sound just slightly different, but the stories are always soothing and family-friendly,

and our wishes for you are always deep-rassed and sweet dreams. Now I'm about to tell you a bedtime

story. It's simple and not much happens in it, and that is the idea.

The story is a soft place to rest your mind.

A simple and pleasant way to occupy it so that it doesn't wander away and keep you up.

All you need to do is listen.

Just follow along with the sound of my voice and the simple details of the story.

And soon, very soon, you'll be deeply asleep.

I'll tell the story twice, and I'll go a little slower the second time through.

If you wake in the middle of the night, you could

listen again, or just think your way back through any part of the story that you can remember. Think Your

Brain, to any part of the story that you can remember.

We are training your brain to settle and rest.

And the

more you do this the better your sleep will get.

Our story tonight is called The Leaf House

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