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A Quiet Night in Ancient Babylon | Sleep Story
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A city made from river mud, rising slowly on top of its own forgotten rooms.
A long, slow one. There's no ending you need to reach, and nothing you'll miss if you drift off partway.
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Tonight: the mud-brick houses and narrow streets of ancient Babylon, courtyards hidden behind blank walls, clay tablets pressed with reed styluses, barley, dates and beer, temples where the gods were fed and dressed, blue-glazed gates, family graves beneath the floor, and warm nights spent sleeping beneath the open sky.
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