Fedor Alphenaar

A meditative journey through desert night and golden silence. Under the moon’s silver gaze, a lone traveller walks away from the last campfire’s glow and into an ocean of dunes.

A bedtime story for adults that soothes the mind and a sleep story for adults that invites you to rest in rhythm with a slower world. On a quiet cobbled street, above a glowing bakehouse, a small window opens to the scent of fresh bread and the first light of dawn.

In a quiet Swiss mountain town where snow settles over rooftops and time moves like breath, a young apprentice tends the clocks of an ancient tower. This is mindful fiction crafted for listeners who cherish stillness, precision, and the rhythm of slow living books.

Ink in the Shape of Silence is a calming short story for adults, set in the quiet of an old monastery where words are not always spoken but still felt.

This meditative, slow-paced story invites you to join a retired postmaster as he discovers a forgotten box of unsent letters in his attic.

Set in a whitewashed lighthouse on a misty clifftop, the story follows an aging keeper as he prepares for his final night of duty. As fog drifts in and stars fade behind wisps of cloud, he climbs the spiral stairs one last time to light the beacon that has guided countless ships home.

Looking for a slow, meditative story to unwind with? Tea With the Emperor’s Ghost is a 5,000-word work crafted for quiet evenings, gentle minds, and listeners who love tea, philosophy, and starlit reflection.

The Bird That Dreamt in Colours is not a story to rush through; it is a story to settle into. Written in the meditative, lyrical style of literary short fiction, it has been crafted for slow listening, for quiet evenings and bedtime hours.

The Train to Lavender Station is a gentle bedtime story for grown-ups, part of the Before Your Dream series. It offers a soft, meditative journey through grief, release, and quiet transformation.

This meditative sleep story invites you into a quiet coastal world of tide, memory, and presence. As dusk settles over a fishing village and the chapel glows softly on the rocks above, a boy begins to hear something stirring beneath the stone — a resonance older than language, as gentle as the sea.

Where the Tide Forgets Your Name is a quiet, immersive bedtime story for adults, written for the in-between hours when the body is ready to rest but the mind hasn’t yet followed.

In a quiet orchard where light and shadow breathe together, an old boat rests among apple trees, holding sunlight, memory, and time itself. When a wandering child discovers it one golden afternoon, a simple encounter becomes a meditation on wonder and rest.

Raindrops on the Copper Roof is a sleep story for adults with a poetic mood and deep emotional stillness. It invites you into a peaceful journey through sensory detail: lavender in the air, soft creaks in the floor, the warm hush of applewood smoke.

In the golden hush of evening, a solo traveller steps into a quiet café tucked away in the alleys of Casablanca’s medina. The table she chooses is set for one.

The Lantern Lit Sanctuary is a gentle, atmospheric work of literary fiction for bedtime listening. It is crafted for those who love contemplative short stories, slow-living fiction set in poetic forests, and dreamlike prose where every detail glows softly in the mind.

Let yourself be carried through the quiet heart of Venice, where moonlight pools in ivy-draped canals and stone bridges lean inward like those who remember. This poetic Venice short story for adults invites you into a slow, meditative drift guided by a silent gondolier. No crowds. No dialogue.

High on a remote mountain, where wind threads through stone and silence gathers in the dome, an old observatory waits for night. Inside, a solitary astronomer begins his ritual. He does not measure or chart.

This is not a place found on maps, nor a building of stone and timber, but a dwelling shaped from twilight itself. Its walls breathe with memory, its corridors hum with echoes of forgotten voices, and its windows glow with the light of every sunset that has ever brought comfort to a weary heart.

Under the Sakura Moon is a relaxing short story in the contemplative tradition of literary fiction. If you enjoy calming sleep stories for adults or slow-paced fiction for night listening, this tale offers a place to pause.

The Garden of Starlight is a gentle literary sleep story for adults—crafted to be savoured at night. Through poetic prose and dreamlike imagery, it invites you to wander a sanctuary suspended above the clouds, where light, fragrance and silence move in unhurried harmony.