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Nightlight: Short Stories for Teens on Growing Up, Failing, and Trying Again
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2026
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Fifteen quiet stories to end the day with and something worth carrying into the next.
Some nights the mind won't slow down. The worries of the day loop; tomorrow feels heavy before it's even arrived. Nightlight was made for exactly those nights.
This is a collection of fifteen short stories for teens and older kids, each one following an ordinary young person through an ordinary hard moment. A runner who comes in last and has to decide whether to try again. A boy learning that the kindest thing to do for a friend isn't always the easiest. A girl who's spent her whole life feeling like the dim one next to a brighter sister. A goodbye, a fallen-out friendship, a choice made alone in the dark.
Every story is written to be read slowly, in the last unhurried minutes before sleep gentle enough to settle a racing mind, warm enough to stay with you, and quietly wise about the things that turn out to matter most: failing and beginning again, honesty, forgiveness, courage, patience, self-kindness, gratitude, and keeping your word.
No screens. No noise. No stories that end on a cliff and keep you up. Just fifteen small, beautifully told tales that leave you calmer than they found you and a little braver for tomorrow.
Perfect for ages 12 and up, for bedtime, for anxious readers, and for anyone who could use a gentler way to close the day.
Read one tonight. Let its small lesson settle. Then rest because tomorrow is always another chance to begin again.
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