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.

Let me say a bit about how this podcast works.

Just as your body needs a bed to sleep in, your mind needs a place to rest.

Someplace calm and safe and simple. And that's what the story is, a place to rest your mind. I'll tell it twice and I'll go a little

bit slower the second time through.

As you listen, pull the details of the story

around you like a blanket.

Imagine yourself in the story and before you know it, likely before I finish reading,

you'll be deeply and peacefully asleep.

If you wake again in the middle of the night,

walk yourself back through any of the details from the story that you can remember.

It'll put your mind right back into that nest

and you'll be waking up tomorrow, feeling relaxed and refreshed.

Our story tonight is called trick or treat.

And it's a story about roaming the streets on all

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