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In this episode, Oliver, a junior investigator, encounters a caffeinated comet that transforms his coffee in unexpected ways.

Visit the “A Bedtime Story” show website to submit your story ideas for a future episode! Welcome to A Bedtime Story. I'm Matthew Mitchell, and tonight's story is titled The Case of the Caffeinated Comet, Part 1 of this week's series: The Bureau of Forgotten Miracles. Oliver sat at his desk, which was currently buried under a mountain of paperwork that had absolutely nothing to do with taxes and everything to do with the unexplained. As a junior investigator for the Bureau of Forgotten Miracles, his job was to catalog the things the world had simply stopped noticing. This included things like the exact shade of blue that only appears for three seconds during a summer storm and the sound of a secret being whispered into a seashell. It was a quiet job, or at least it was supposed to be until the comet arrived. It did not crash through the roof, which would have been dramatic but messy. Instead, it zipped through the open window, performed three frantic laps around the ceiling fan, and then landed with a soft hiss in Oliver's lukewarm cup of coffee. The coffee immediately began to glow a vibrant, neon violet, and the cup started to vibrate with enough intensity to rattle the pens…

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