The Lantern Keeper of Sleepy Town

Bedtime Sleep Stories For Grownups · Oct 4, 2026 · 1h 3m · transcript

Sleepy Town sits in a fold of green hills, and every evening Wren walks its lanes with an oil can and a pocket full of quiet. In "The Lantern Keeper of Sleepy Town," we follow her whole round — six lamps up Latchkey Lane, eight around the fountain square, ten down the harbor road, twelve along the piers, and the last six across the causeway to the lighthouse hill.

Along the way: rosemary hedges and porch cats, a baker's boy with a warm roll, lobster pots silver in the lamplight, a thermos of sweet tea at low water, and a pine grove where an owl gives the night its blessing. Forty-two small…