A sophisticated, screen-free mystery about the beauty of the unknown. 🎙️💎

Walk through the gates of a carnival where time smells like rust and the mirrors show different versions of the same moment. Join Zephyr as they learn that the most important truth isn't always the one you can solve.

Perfect for car rides, school commutes, or quiet afternoons of dreaming. > Follow us for daily mysteries! 🔔

Bring your own imagination to life: Get the Fable's Adventures App on the Apple App Store

A high-stakes, screen-free mystery for young listeners. 🎙️🏙️

When the bells of Merchant's Wharf stop ringing, the city becomes a dangerous place. Join Sam Winters and their brave sparrow, Pip, as they race to restore the signal. This immersive audio story explores friendship, responsibility, and the courage it takes to admit we can't do everything alone.

Perfect for car rides, school commutes, or quiet afternoons. >Follow us for daily mysteries! 🔔

Bring your own imagination to life: Get Fable's Adventures on the Apple App Store

A screen-free mystery about ancient secrets and the power of wisdom. 🎙️🌟

When a forbidden puzzle box snaps shut with Sage's friend Moss inside, Sage has three hours to untangle a mechanism that hasn't been touched in centuries. Does Sage have the skill—and the heart—to unlock the truth without destroying it?

Perfect for car rides, quiet time, or classroom listening, this immersive audio story helps kids explore problem-solving and responsibility.

Follow us for daily stories! 🔔Bring your own imagination to life - Get Fable's Adventures for iOS on the Apple App Store

Step inside the Odditorium, where the paintings watch you and the hallways whisper. 🎙️👻

In this middle grade audio story, Ezra Wells must help a lost girl named Sophie find her mother before the museum closes.

But the Odditorium has other plans. With ghostly voices giving wrong directions, Ezra must learn to trust their own heart over the noise. A perfect screen-free adventure for car rides or bedtime for kids ages 9-12.

Themes:

• Trusting your intuition.

• Helping others in need.

• Overcoming fear.

Build your stories in our Fable's Adventures iOS app. Available on the Apple App Store

Can "helping" actually be harmful? Sprocket Heartwise is a gentle mechanical being who heals broken creatures. But when a loud new visitor named Clang arrives claiming to be an expert, Sprocket’s peaceful workshop is turned upside down.

This middle-grade audio story explores listening, empathy, and the bravery it takes to say "no." Perfect for kids who love steampunk worlds and magical mysteries.

Themes:

• Setting healthy boundaries.

• True listening vs. just hearing.

• Standing up for others.

Create your own stories with the Fable's Adventures app on iOS

The island is dying. Sage can feel it the moment their boots touch the crystalline ground—a trembling, like a held breath about to slip away. Towering shelves carved from luminescent crystal stretch into shadow-soft distances, their spines glowing with forgotten stories no one has read in centuries: The Merchant's Compass, The Girl Who Spoke to Stars, The Kingdom Under Glass.

With their friend Iris, Sage discovers five travelers stranded at the island's far edge where the crystalline ground crumbles into nothing. An elderly woman with silver hair. Two children holding hands so tightly their knuckles are white. A man with paint stains on his sleeves. A girl clutching a leather satchel.

They're staring at empty air. The shadow-bridge that should carry them to safety has vanished.

"It was here," the elderly woman calls out. "We were crossing, and then—it just started to fade. Like we'd forgotten something the bridge needed to remember."

Sage realizes the terrible truth: each traveler is ringed in fractured light. The stories that made them themselves—their personal histories, the tales that shaped who they are—are fragmenting, scattering like pages in an invisible wind.

Shadow-bridges in the crystalline deep only hold firm for those who know the right words, the perfect truths. These travelers have lost theirs.

The man can't remember why he started painting. The girl can't remember the story her mother told when she gave her the satchel. Their memories slip away like water through fingers.

Sage feels that familiar whisper of doubt—Are you really brave enough? But they push it aside and do what they do best: pause, think, listen.

"Tell me," Sage says softly. "Not the whole story. Just the smallest piece. Just the first feeling it gave you."

One by one, the travelers remember: Permission to be uncertain. Hunger to show people forgotten things. Adventure. We weren't alone. With each truth spoken, the shadow-bridge flickers back into existence.

But the girl with the satchel can't remember anything. Her story feels completely gone. And without her truth, the bridge won't hold.

Sage realizes something important—something learned in the theater, in spaces between stories: "Your story isn't gone. It's just waiting for you to write it. Maybe your mother's gift was permission to become someone she'd never met yet. Permission to surprise yourself."

The bridge sings. It materializes in a glorious rush, constructed from silver and pearl, with words appearing along its length: Permission. Hunger. Wonder. Companionship. Becoming.

The travelers cross safely, their essential selves restored—not their lost memories, but something deeper. The core truths that make them who they are.

Perfect for ages 9-12

This story explores:

• Stories aren't just what happened—they're the feelings they gave you
• The most important story is often the one you haven't told yet
• Listening carefully to help people find their own answers
• You're always in the process of becoming someone new
• A handful of true words at the right moment can mend what's broken
• The greatest strength is helping someone else find theirs

A luminous fantasy about someone who believes in stories and in people—and in the idea that those two things are always the same thing. About understanding that every story, including your own, is still being written.

Runtime: 11:22

Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners learning that doubt doesn't mean you can't be brave, that listening is a superpower, and that the most magical thing you can do is help someone remember who they truly are.

To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures

✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

Jason has synesthesia. When the coffee roastery fan hums below his Portland loft, he sees deep indigo swirling into violet, then amber. When his adoptive father Ben makes hot chocolate with exactly three-quarters teaspoon of cinnamon, Jason sees warm orange. Sounds create colors. Smells create colors. His brain connects senses in ways most people never experience.

Six months ago, Jason was in a foster home where his strangeness was tolerated but never understood. Now he lives above Ben's specialty coffee shop, in a home where his synesthesia is celebrated, where Ben reads everything about it, asks him to describe colors, and never makes him feel broken. The adoption papers hang framed on the kitchen counter—proof this belonging is real.

But tomorrow is his first day at Lincoln Elementary's third grade. And Jason is terrified.

Hallways filled with children. Bells ringing. Cafeterias buzzing with a hundred conversations. The thought creates sharp red zigzags across his vision—the color of alarm, of uncertainty. What if the bells are too loud? What if all the voices talking at once make the colors get mixed up and overwhelming? What if he's too weird to fit in?

Ben helps him understand something important: Jason's synesthesia follows patterns. The roasting fan is always C-sharp, always indigo-to-violet-to-amber. The coffee grinder is the same frequency every time. Those sounds terrified Jason at first—chaotic splashes of color that made his skin prickle. But he learned to predict them, understand them. Now they're comforting. They anchor him.

School will be the same. Right now it's all unknown colors, unpredictable sounds. But once Jason learns the patterns—when bells ring, where each class is, which kids are kind—the colors will start to make sense.

On his first day, Jason discovers this is true. The morning bell creates sharp yellow, exactly as he imagined. Numbers in math class follow patterns and rules that don't care if you're weird. The cafeteria is exactly as chaotic as he feared—but underneath the chaos, there's rhythm. The lunch line flows predictably. Tables are arranged the same way. Even overwhelming situations have patterns if you look correctly.

And then Marcus appears. A boy who hums while he works, creating gentle blue Jason finds soothing. A boy who accepts Jason exactly as he is, who talks about numbers and patterns and doesn't ask why Jason seems anxious. Marcus's voice creates warm green—unusual but pleasant—and his acceptance creates a color Jason doesn't have a name for. Something like golden peace. Like belonging.

By the end of the day, Jason realizes: his synesthesia isn't just a barrier. It's a tool. It helped him notice Marcus's kindness in the warmth of his green voice. It helped him navigate cafeteria chaos by finding patterns underneath. His difference—which felt like it made him wrong—actually helps him see the world in beautiful, valuable ways.

Perfect for ages 9-12

This story explores:

• Neurodivergence as difference, not deficit
• Sensory processing challenges and learning to manage them
• Finding patterns in overwhelming situations
• The courage to show up as yourself when you're scared
• Chosen family and adoption
• Understanding that "different" isn't "wrong"
• Your unique perspective as a superpower

A warm, hopeful story about a boy with synesthesia learning that the way his brain works—seeing sounds as colors, experiencing the world through connected senses—isn't something to hide or fix. It's a beautiful lens that helps him notice things others miss, find rhythms in chaos, and recognize kindness when it appears.

Runtime: 18:27

Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners learning that their neurodivergent minds aren't broken. They're different. And different, with the right people who celebrate it, is amazing.

To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures

✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS

Nova Quickwit is a fox with a voice like starlight. Her healing songs can mend hearts, give courage to weary travelers, and bring comfort to creatures in pain. She lives in a magical clearing with ancient stone circles and her wise owl companion Whisper, where she helps those in need with her gift—and her perfectly-timed jokes that can do almost as much healing as any song.

But when a pale deer named Maple arrives in the clearing with a mysterious crescent-shaped scar, Nova's bright confidence crumbles. She recognizes that wound. The exact shape. The exact color. Because seven winters ago, a younger Nova—foolish and gleaming with arrogance—created it.

Maple had asked for help with something beyond ordinary healing. Nova, desperate to prove her voice could do anything, pushed her magic further than she understood. The song worked. Almost. But something broke in the breaking, and Nova ran instead of staying to fix it. She convinced herself that forgetting was the same as it never happening.

Now Maple has traveled to seventeen clearings seeking help, and no healer's magic can touch the scar. There's only one place powerful enough to undo it: the first stone circle, beyond the dangerous Forgetting Thicket—a three-day journey that means Nova will miss the Healing Moon Festival, when all the creatures who depend on her songs need her most.

Nova faces an impossible choice: stay and help the many who need her tonight, or leave and fix the one mistake she's been running from for seven years.

With Whisper's patient wisdom reminding her that "mistakes are just stories you haven't finished writing yet," and Maple's quiet readiness to finally put down a burden she's carried too long, Nova must decide what true healing really means.

The journey to the Forgetting Thicket will require believing in things she can't see. And when it's done, Nova promises herself something harder than the journey itself: she'll tell the whole story—the real version, with all the parts she got wrong.

Perfect for ages 9-12

This story explores:

• Taking real responsibility for mistakes instead of just feeling bad about them
• The difference between performing goodness and actually being good
• Choosing the difficult right thing over the easier but less honest path
• Understanding that forgiveness requires action, not just apology
• The courage it takes to tell the truth about what you did wrong
• Meaningful amends vs. running away and hoping people forget

A thoughtful, emotionally honest fantasy adventure about a healer learning that sometimes the bravest magic isn't fixing what's broken in others—it's facing what you broke yourself and doing the hard work of making it right.

Runtime: 11:44

Part of the Fables Adventures collection - stories for young listeners learning that mistakes aren't the end of your story. They're just the middle. And the bravest thing you can do is go back and finish what you started, even when it's been seven years and you're terrified of what you'll find.

To read the full text of this story, visit us at Fable's Adventures.

✨ Want to create your own stories? Download the Fable’sAdventures app for iOS