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, busy minds need a place to rest.

Without some framework, some structure for your thoughts, they are likely to run

wild and without stop.

So just listen to the sound of my voice, and follow along with the general shape of the story.

Before you know it, you'll be fast asleep.

If you wake later and feel your thoughts begin to race again.

You could listen again. You could listen again. Or just think your way back through any part of the

story you can remember. That bit of structure will steer you right back to sleep.

I promise.

And since it's brain training, it will get easier and more automatic with time.

Our story tonight is called The Main Sale, and it's a story about the end of the summer traditions up at the cottage on the river.

It's also about Penny Candy in a brown paper bag, the sun just before it sets, and the ways we mark the time we spend with people we love.

Now, turn off your light.

Put away anything you've been looking at or playing with.

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