The Platform Kettle

Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Tonight, we step off the train at a quiet Welsh junction, where the waiting room is closed and the rain falls soft against the iron canopy. Mair has forty minutes to spare, a tin of saffron buns, and a promise to keep — and beneath the far bench, someone has left a copper kettle, still warm. Includes mentions of: Mention of Loss, Food, Beverages, Weather, Animals, Light Peril, Travel. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian