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 rest and sweet dreams.

Now, let me say a little about how to use this podcast.

I've got a bedtime story for you and just like the

stories you heard when you were little it's meant to ease you into peaceful sleep.

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

The story is like a cozy nest for your mind, a soft place for it to focus on, so that the thoughts

and worries of the day can lose their grip on you.

If you wake in the middle of the night,

don't hesitate to start the story again.

You're training your brain to respond to this particular stimulus and over

time it will become more and more automatic and your sleep will improve.

Our story tonight is called The Librarian

and it's a story about the quiet of the closed-up library at the end of the day.

It's also about the books that sometimes get overlooked on the top shelf.

A string of lights glowing over an outdoor table

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