Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode!Oscar the owl was an unlikely lighthouse keeper. He loved the height, he loved the wind, and he loved the spiral staircase. The one thing he absolutely could not stand was the light. It was too bright, too flashy, and made it impossible for him to enjoy his favorite nighttime pastime: reading very long, very complicated novels by the light of a single, flickering match.One night, a particularly dense fog rolled in. Oscar was happily nestled in the very top of the lighthouse, ignoring the lamp and engrossed in a thrilling book about nautical knot-tying.Suddenly, a frantic knocking echoed up the stairs. Wallace, the excitable whale who lived in the nearby harbor, swam right up to the base and called out, "Oscar! The fog! It's thick as pea soup! Turn on the light!"Oscar sighed, marking his page. "The light, Wallace? Must I? It interrupts my focus, and honestly, it attracts far too many noisy moths."Wallace splashed impatiently. "It attracts ships, Oscar! Which is, you know, the whole point of the lighthouse!"Oscar reluctantly opened the lens cover and turned the giant lamp on. A blinding flash of light instantly filled the room. Wallace shouted a relieved thank you from below.Oscar, however, squinted and muttered, "There. Now how am I supposed to read? This light is quite over-performing its duties."He found a large, velvety black cape he used for dramatic entrances and threw it over the entire lamp. The blinding light was instantly reduced to a very dim, manageable, slightly reddish glow.Wallace's voice boomed again. "Oscar! The light is very, very dim! It looks like a single, distant, very sleepy firefly!"Oscar poked his head out the window. "It is working, Wallace! It's just a subtly illuminated light! Less flashy, more sophisticated! And now I can read!"Wallace, being a charitable whale, decided that a sleepy firefly light was better than no light at all. He gave a weary sigh and swam off, resolving to send a very stern letter to the Lighthouse Keeper Union about the importance of not reading novels during dense fog.

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