Fedor Alphenaar

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.

At the edge of a silent village, a walled garden hums softly at dusk. Beneath an apricot tree, a humble pillowmaker works in the fading light, filling soft linen cases with herbs, feathers, and memory.

Embers Before Dreams gathers five gentle, soothing tales from the Before Your Dream series—each crafted to quiet the mind, loosen the breath, and guide you toward restful calm.

In The Bookshop with No Clock, a traveler steps through a fog-covered alley and into a quiet shop where time itself has learned to rest.

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.

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.

In this gentle anthology from the Before Your Dream series, five quiet, luminous tales invite listeners into realms where memory drifts like water, stories grow from moss and stone, and peace settles over the heart like evening light.

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.

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.

A young woman returns to the forest of her childhood, where every step is filled with memory and every leaf seems to whisper her name.

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.

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.

Step into the stillness of evening, where every story glows like candlelight and each part hums with quiet wonder. Echoes Before Dreams gathers five poetic tales from the Before Your Dream series—stories written to slow the heart and carry you gently toward sleep.

The Moss Library is a calming story for adults, created for listeners who long to slow down, breathe deeply, and be carried into stillness by the rhythm of words. This belongs to the Before Your Dream series — lyrical, meditative fiction designed to quiet the mind and ease you toward sleep.

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.

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.

Paper Boats on the River of Time is a calming bedtime story for adults, part of the Before Your Dream series. Written with soft pacing and a meditative voice, the story invites you into a world beyond clocks and calendars, where memories sail without direction, held by the current and the quiet.

A sleep story for adults — written to soften the breath, slow the heart, and invite stillness. Some letters are never lost. They wait quietly inside forgotten books, folded in silence, until the right reader finds them.

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.