The Last Bus to Stillwater

A Relaxing Bedtime Story for Adults About Memory, Ritual, and Return (Before Your Dream)

De: Fedor Alphenaar

Narrado por: Peter McGiffen

What if your journey home began with a promise you'd forgotten?

On a narrow country road in the English countryside, a faded cream-and-green bus rolls through the twilight — slow, steady, quiet. It stops at a sign that reads Before Your Dream. One by one, passengers board: an elderly woman with a basket of warm scones, a man with a bouquet he doesn’t remember picking up, a girl in boots too large. They don’t speak. They simply know it’s time.

The Last Bus to Stillwater is a relaxing bedtime story for adults about memory, ritual, and return. Written in soft, poetic prose, it’s a gentle surreal story — a journey not just across landscape, but through the quiet corners of the soul. The destination is both a place and a feeling: something old, something remembered, something deeply still.

This dreamlike short story is designed to be read — or listened to — slowly. There are no twists to unravel, no tension to hold. Just movement, rhythm, and the comfort of a shared silence. It's a literary sleep story, crafted for the hour before rest.

Perfect for those who enjoy calming fiction set in rural villages, relaxing literary fiction, or stories that blur the boundary between memory and imagination. If you love nostalgic poetic stories set against the backdrop of an English countryside, this one will feel like coming home.

Let the bus take its time. Let the dusk settle. You’ll arrive when you’re ready.

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