The Ruins 🗝️
Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids
Sleep Tight Media
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome to Sleeptight Stories. |
| 0:16.0 | Miles and his mom have moved to a new place, and on Monday, Miles will start his new school. |
| 0:27.6 | Miles didn't want to leave his old home, but his mother wanted a new start. So here they are. Miles put on his favorite shorts and decided to go for a run and explore the new town. He had two days before school started. |
| 0:48.3 | The Ruins Miles |
| 0:57.0 | Miles didn't know where he was running too. |
| 1:03.0 | He just loved to run. |
| 1:06.0 | His mother called him a runner. |
| 1:09.0 | His father used to say he had messenger's legs, but he was gone now, and Miles was |
| 1:15.6 | supposed to be the man of the house. |
| 1:18.8 | Except he couldn't make any decisions, like having ice cream for breakfast, or staying up |
| 1:25.6 | late listening to the radio. |
| 1:28.1 | But he could run, and running to nowhere in particular was his favorite activity on a Saturday. |
| 1:37.6 | How else was he going to explore this new town before school started on Monday? |
| 1:44.6 | Today Miles wore his favorite shorts, the kind with really deep pockets. |
| 1:52.0 | His mother kept threatening to buy him a new pair because these had holes that couldn't be |
| 1:57.6 | repaired and smells that couldn't be washed away. But Miles wouldn't allow it. |
| 2:05.6 | It was just about the only decision he was allowed to make. If it was up to him, they wouldn't |
| 2:13.6 | have moved to this place at all. He liked their old house. It reminded him of |
| 2:19.4 | dad. Mom wanted a fresh start. Miles wasn't sure yet what he wanted, except maybe to find something |
| 2:29.5 | in this new place that felt like his. |
| 2:38.9 | Today, he found himself running through the old part of town. |
| 2:42.3 | The ruins, as they were labeled on the maps, |
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