Bathroom Breaks & Bedtime Tales

Sevastian Winters and Brinley Winters
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Bathroom Breaks & Bedtime Tales is a collection of stories for rebellious souls looking for something raw and real to read. Did you feel that?

  1. Abrego [Fiction | Political] by Sevastian Winters

    8H AGO

    Abrego [Fiction | Political] by Sevastian Winters

    A father drives his autistic son home from school.Minutes later, he is arrested by ICE and disappears — despite having a valid court order protecting him from deportation.This is the story of Kilmar Abrego García: a husband, union worker, and father of three U.S.-born children who was legally allowed to remain in the United States… until the law was ignored.From suburban Maryland to a mega-prison in El Salvador, this audio story explores immigration, executive power, family separation, and what happens when court rulings collide with politics.When the rule of law fails, who pays the price?

    41 min
  2. The Arithmetic of Mercy [Fiction | Dystopian] by Sevastian Winters

    1D AGO

    The Arithmetic of Mercy [Fiction | Dystopian] by Sevastian Winters

    What if mercy could be measured? In a near-future justice system, remorse is no longer a matter of interpretation. It’s quantified. Scored. Calculated. A number on a screen determines who deserves forgiveness — and who does not. When an elderly woman responsible for a catastrophic accident earns an almost perfect remorse score, clemency should be simple. Rational. Humane. Efficient. But grief does not fit neatly into data. As victims’ families sit silently in the courtroom, and the accused refuses mercy granted by arithmetic alone, one evaluator begins to question the system she once trusted. Can forgiveness ever be reduced to metrics? Does rational justice heal — or does it erase something essential? The Arithmetic of Mercy is a quiet, haunting work of speculative fiction about justice, grief, and the cost of compassion in an age obsessed with measurement. If you enjoy thoughtful dystopian fiction, moral science fiction, and stories that explore the limits of systems built to “fix” human pain, this one is for you.

    14 min
  3. Death of a Storyteller [Fiction | Literary] by Sevastian Winters

    2D AGO

    Death of a Storyteller [Fiction | Literary] by Sevastian Winters

    Long before his name became synonymous with wisdom, he was a slave. Long before his fables were taught to children, he was condemned for the power of his words. Death of a Storyteller revisits the life and legacy of Aesop — not as a gentle collector of moral tales, but as a man whose mind could not be contained by chains, deformity, or fear. Executed for his stories, dismissed for his appearance, bound by slavery — and yet remembered for centuries. This is a meditation on freedom of thought, the danger of truth, and the quiet rebellion of storytelling. Because sometimes the body is imprisoned… but the mind refuses to kneel.

    9 min
  4. Hold Your Breath [Fiction | Literary] by Sevastian Winters

    3D AGO

    Hold Your Breath [Fiction | Literary] by Sevastian Winters

    He learned to hold his breath before he ever learned to swim.Taught in a bathtub by a father who believed endurance was strength, a boy grows up measuring himself in silence — in seconds survived, in words unsaid, in grief swallowed whole. When the river takes his father in a quiet, almost polite accident, it leaves behind more than loss. It leaves a lesson: Don’t quit too early.Years later, the same river keeps calling him back.Dock repairs. Drownings. Near rescues. The current never changes — and neither does the counting in his head. One. Two. Three. How long can you hold out before something inside you gives way?Hold Your Breath is a haunting literary drama about inherited silence, suppressed grief, and the moment a man must decide whether endurance is strength… or surrender.If you’ve ever mistaken survival for healing, this story will stay with you long after the final line.

    9 min
  5. The Apprentice's Bargain [Fiction | Crime] by Sevastian Winters

    4D AGO

    The Apprentice's Bargain [Fiction | Crime] by Sevastian Winters

    He didn’t mean to kill him. It was supposed to be a petty act. A small rebellion. A moment of anger aimed at a man who built his fortune on other people’s desperation. But one push becomes a fall. One fall becomes blood.And suddenly the apprentice is standing over the body of the mentor who taught him that life is a game you either win or lose.Reuben signed a contract believing ruthlessness was the price of success. Eviction notices. Whiskey in crystal glasses. A Rolls-Royce gleaming under streetlights. “This game is not for bleeding hearts.” Tonight, the lesson is complete.As sirens wail in the distance and the city moves on without noticing, he’s left with a choice: confess… or finish what his mentor started.The Apprentice’s Bargain is a tense psychological descent into ambition, morality, and the cost of becoming the very thing you once despised.

    13 min
  6. The Fire Before the Fall [Fiction | Literary] by Sevastian Winters

    5D AGO

    The Fire Before the Fall [Fiction | Literary] by Sevastian Winters

    The war didn’t break him. It revealed him. Before the motel rooms. Before the hallucinations. Before the one-eyed shadow in the dark—there was the desert. The heat. The convoy. The explosion that tore through metal and bone and everything Odell thought he believed about duty. This is the story of the day everything changed. When leadership failed.When rage took over.When vengeance replaced discipline.When a soldier crossed a line he can never uncross. As mortar fire rains down and an ambush turns the sand red, Odell loses his best friend—and in the aftermath, loses something far more dangerous: himself. This is not a story about glory.It’s about the moment a man falls… and the fire that comes before it. Put your headphones on. Step into the desert. And witness the beginning of the end.

    12 min
  7. The Long Way Home [Fiction | Literary] by Sevastian Winters

    6D AGO

    The Long Way Home [Fiction | Literary] by Sevastian Winters

    He came home from war.But the war came home with him.Odell hasn’t slept through the night in years. When he closes his eyes, the convoy explodes again. The dust, the blood, the voice of the friend who didn’t make it out. In the dark corners of cheap motel rooms and empty highways, something waits for him—a one-eyed shadow that wears the shape of memory, guilt, and everything he can’t outrun.His wife is still there. Still calling. Still hoping.But how do you go home when you’re not sure you deserve one?As hallucinations blur into reality and survivor’s guilt tightens its grip, Odell faces a single choice: keep running… or finally turn toward the life he almost lost.This is a raw, unflinching story about PTSD, shame, love, and the long road back from war.Put your headphones on. And come along for the long way home.

    25 min
  8. What the Children Knew [Fiction | Literary] by Sevastian Winters

    FEB 27

    What the Children Knew [Fiction | Literary] by Sevastian Winters

    Every morning, the children are taught to repeat the same words. A ritual meant to preserve memory. A safeguard against forgetting.But one day, they stop.What begins as a small, respectful refusal becomes something far more unsettling—a generational divide between those who remember fear and those who no longer carry it. As a teacher watches her classroom change, she’s forced to confront an uncomfortable possibility: that the lessons meant to protect the future may be anchoring everyone to the past.What the Children Knew is a quiet, speculative short story about memory, safety, and the moment when inherited fear loses its hold.

    7 min
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Bathroom Breaks & Bedtime Tales is a collection of stories for rebellious souls looking for something raw and real to read. Did you feel that?

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  • Creator
    Sevastian Winters and Brinley Winters
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    63
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Sevastian Winters and Brinley Winters
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