Drift with Erin Davis

A Visit From St Nicholas

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you await the arrival of Père Noel, Sinterklaas or good ol' Santa, this timeless classic is a story that resonates and stirs the hearts and m...

Louisa May Alcott's A Christmas Dream

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Effie is a ten-year-old girl who has everything a child could want - except the spirit of Christmas in her heart. After she reads a Dickens classic an...

Yes, Virginia: A Reason to Believe

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over 100 years ago, an eight-year-old girl wrote to the editor of a New York City newspaper with a question: Is Santa Claus real? This is the story of...

Toinette and the Elves

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This lovely story is about a little girl who helps an elf. He turns around and helps her become invisible, but is it a gift or a curse? She finds out ...

The Gift of the Magi (A Gloriously Messed-Up Gift Exchange)

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Long have the Wise Men been believed to have started the idea of giving presents at Christmas. But this couple's mix up could very well have spelled t...

What Christmas Is As We Grow Older

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for this story, as Charles Dickens looks back at holidays past, and sees angels in the present – and among the presents – at Christmas. Dr...

Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join me for this beautiful story set around Christmastime in the forests of Germany where a little girl who lives with her grandmother holds great hop...

The Fir that Couldn't See the Forest for the Trees

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this retelling of a Hans Christian Andersen fable, a tree yearns for everything it does not have, until he gets it and realizes he should have appr...

The Little Mermaid

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Set as far under the sea as this story by Hans Christian Andersen is from the animated versions, this telling of the original fish-out-of-water fairy ...

Golden Orchard

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this story written just for Drift, it would appear that love grows on trees for a humble farmer, when locals come to hear the song of an entrancing...

Casey At the Bat

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With so much of Canada in the throes of baseball fever, it seems only right that we share this, the most famous of all poems about the sport. Written ...

Man May Love

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This heart-warming fiction (or is it?), Man May Love was chosen from among 30,000 short story entries to a war-time LIFE magazine contest. What happen...

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A classic tale told on stage and film, this story by Lewis Carroll takes a young girl on a gently-told but most interesting ride down, down, down...wh...

The Hut in the Forest (or Heir BnB)

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A Grimm Fairy Tale proves it: at the end of the day, don't let seeds show the way. And be nice - you never know how it could pay off. Listen free, tha...

Jack and His Beanstalk Take the High Road

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A social climber learns that not even the sky's the limit in the retelling of this young has-bean. *No ogres are harmed in the telling, but the beanst...

Black Beauty - Life Lessons from the Field

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From Anna Sewell's well-loved book, these first three chapters offer the perspective of a handsome young horse learning of life and love at his mother...

Wanted: Lonely Prince Seeks Soul Mate to Share Pad

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A young princess loses her talisman but finds the amphibian of her dreams. A spell-binding tale of looking past first impressions to find friendship. ...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Part Two

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When we left Benjamin, the middle-aged man was run out of Yale University on a rail (literally). In this F. Scott Fitzgerald story's adventurous concl...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Part One

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A classic short story from F. Scott Fitzgerald, this tale imagines age reversal with life beginning as an elderly person and ending as an infant. Char...

Warming Sunshine of Love: An Angel in Disguise

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TS Arthur wrote this beautiful story, reshaped especially for you here, of a hard-working couple who opened their house to a recently-orphaned girl na...

Sleep Sheep of Provence

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Set in the idyllic South of France, this original gentle story story puts you in the comfy shoes of a travel blogger witnessing the beauty and wonders...

Ivan the Fool and St Peter’s Fife

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This Ukrainian folk tale is one of many told about a man deemed unintelligent who actually turns things around to his benefit. Ivan the Fool and St. P...

The Magic Bonbons

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How wonderful to discover another tale from the wonderful, wizard-like mind of Oz author L. Frank Baum. What happens when a group of people at a dinne...

Asha and the Crystal Heart

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A young girl grows up hearing ages-old legends of a magical talisman that no one has been able to use for its abilities. Asha decides it will be she w...

Snow White

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this retelling of a Grimm classic, a young woman is shunned for her beauty and finds help from seven new friends, while a jealous queen pays the wa...

The Ice Dragon

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If it's very warm where you are, you may find some comfort in this magical tale of Northern Lights, a very clever brother and sister duo and a slide t...

The Fairy by Charles Perrault

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From the man often called the Father of the Fairy Tale, this little-known story written by Charles Perrault is about a hard-done-by young woman who is...

Cinderella: If the Shoe Fits...

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How many times have we heard this tale? Well, not enough! For this story of a young girl, ill-treated by her family but beloved by not just her fairy ...

L. Frank Baum’s The Glass Dog

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What an unexpected delight to come across a new-to-us story from such a brilliant writer! The man who brought us The Wizard of Oz tells a tale of magi...

Gulliver’s Travels: A Voyage to Lilliput (Part Two)

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you drifted off before the end of Part One of this story by Jonathan Swift, not to worry: I'll recap where we are when we pick up on the second and...

Gulliver’s Travels: A Voyage to Lilliput (Part One)

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when a full-sized man who is cast adrift lands on an island full of tiny, often warring people? In this Jonathan Swift tale, we learn of ...

Colin and the Magic Oyster

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by a trip along the coast of Vancouver Island, this is the tale of a boy who finds a mollusk that turns into something quite incredible. Enjo...

Winnie the Pooh Chapter 3: In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What a joy it is to bring you the words of A.A. Milne in stories he wrote for his son. And in this third podcast rendering of Mr. Milne's creation, Po...

Winnie the Pooh Chapter 2

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Robin's father opens the book where we left off, and this time we all enjoy A.A.Milne's story of Pooh getting himself in a most awkward sp...

Winnie the Pooh: Introduction and Chapter One

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's a joy to bring to you the beloved adventures of a boy and his bear, and that bear's friends, as told to Christopher Robin by the author A. A. Mil...

Narcissus and the Echo

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You've heard the word narcissistic – now enjoy the tale of the beautiful nymph for whom the word was coined, and the other wood fairies who suffered...

Beauty and the Beast

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this Drift Sleep Story, we tell a tale that truly is as old as time. A young woman meets a creature who holds her father in his home. Only love –...

Raggedy Ann

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Did you have a Raggedy Ann doll? Perhaps an Andy as well? Whether you did or not, I think you'll enjoy this sweet tale of a cloth doll and her friends...

The Rosetta Stone

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

I can almost guarantee you'll fall asleep before the actual translation happens of The Rosetta Stone, a crucial artifact which enabled scholars to dec...

King Midas

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

More than a North American muffler company, Midas was a man who inherited a great kingdom, and yet, yearned for more. Learn the price that he paid, pl...

Drifting Upwards

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join me on Drift with Erin Davis for Drifting Upwards, a gentle modern-day story of a hot air balloon ride. A loving couple celebrates their 40th wedd...

Signs and Dimes: Finding Hope in Loss

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A personal Drift Story about searching for – and finding – proof that those whom we dearly miss are still with us. Birds, aromas, feathers, dimes ...

Snow Drop

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join me for this Grimm Fairy Tale with which you will no doubt find many similarities to the more popular tale of Snow White. Drift off to sleep – n...

Travelling Musicians

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine, if you will, a group of animals who have all been put out to pasture – and not in a good way. Together they find themselves in the midst of...

The Ungrateful Sons and the Old Man Who Went To School

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Don't let a long title fool you – this short but memorable Ukrainian fairy tale is about a man who teaches his offspring a lesson they needed to lea...

Oh, Icarus - The Boy Who Flew too Close to the Sun

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Long a tale that has warned those of us who dare try too hard or hope for too much to “stay in our lane,” Oh, Icarus is the story of a boy whose f...

The Elves and the Shoemaker

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Don't let the title fool you: although we usually associate elves with Christmas, Will Ferrell and cookies...this story is the tale of a humble cobble...

The Prophet Part Two: Reflections on Giving, Friendship and Time

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Once again we visit some of the most beautiful prose of the last century by Lebanese-American Kahlil Gibran. In this wise and wistful piece, we take i...

Mother Star and Her Offspring

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a short and sweet folk tale that comes from India and you need only look up at clear night skies to meet our main characters. It's a whimsical...

The Jungle Book Part Three – Shere Khan Meets His Match in Mowgli

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You'll be as sorry as we were that this story is coming to its end but, ah, what a finish it is! A tale of friendship, of danger, and of the many adve...

The Jungle Book Part Two – Beware of Silly Apes and Tigers Holding Grudges

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let your imagination scale the vines of steamy subterfuge in the second part of Rudyard Kipling's classic: as Mowgli grows from baby to adolescent, he...

The Jungle Book Part One – A Boy Walks into a Wolf Cave

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Immerse yourself in sultry and sometimes treacherous jungles, fields and caves of India where a young boy is raised by wolves, befriended by a wise be...

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Part One: Reflections on Love and More

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this first story of the new year, let us listen to the thoughts of one of the great writers of the 20th century. Enjoy Kahlil Gibran's thoughts on ...

The Brave, Warm Heart of the Steadfast Tin Soldier

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This classic tale of a special toy and the trials he faces proves again why the stories of Hans Christian Andersen will always stand the test of time,...

A Visit From St Nicholas

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you await the arrival of Père Noel, Sinterklaas or good ol' Santa, this timeless classic is a story that resonates and stirs the hearts and m...

Yes, Virginia: A Reason to Believe

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over 100 years ago, an eight-year-old girl wrote to the editor of a New York City newspaper with a question: Is Santa Claus real? This is the story of...

Louisa May Alcott's A Christmas Dream

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Effie is a ten-year-old girl who has everything a child could want - except the spirit of Christmas in her heart. After she reads a Dickens classic an...

The Gift of the Magi (A Gloriously Messed-Up Gift Exchange)

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Long have the Wise Men been believed to have started the idea of giving presents at Christmas. But this couple's mixup could very well have spelled th...

Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join me for this beautiful story set around Christmastime in the forests of Germany where a little girl who lives with her grandmother holds great hop...

Toinette and the Elves

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This lovely story is about a little girl who helps an elf. He turns around and helps her become invisible, but is it a gift or a curse? She finds out ...

The Fir that Couldn't See the Forest for the Trees

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this retelling of a Hans Christian Andersen fable, a tree yearns for everything it does not have, until he gets it and realizes he should have appr...

The Velveteen Rabbit - How Toys Become Real

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do find something to snuggle and listen to this favourite tale of a boy's much-loved bunny who yearns to become real. It is a beautiful reminder alway...

The Emperor's New Clothes

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Often when we hear of someone who is surrounded by yes-men (and women), they're described in terms of this story by Hans Christian Andersen. But who r...

The Little Farmer

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a slightly reimagined Grimm Brothers' tale of a poor man who uses his wits to win and makes his fellow townsfolk really wish they had not igno...

The Lion and the Mouse

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Old Aesop was indeed a wise man – he told short tales that had messages that still resonate today. Like the moral of this story: no one is too small...

Philippa and Prickly Prince Percival: The Swineherd

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes the best tales are the ones that go in a different direction than you expect, as with this story of an ingenious and optimistic young woman ...

The Tortoise and the Hare

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This enlightening tale is one that was written centuries ago by the prolific Aesop. I'll take you to a gentle day under fluttering leaves and warming ...

The Jewel of Denial: The Necklace

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For nearly a century-and-a-half, this story has been told as a morality tale - perhaps even one of a cautionary tone. Set in Paris in the 19th century...

Lessons in Love and Selflessness – The Good Ship Rover

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Young Harry and Walt, a miniature pirate ship and a sudden tidal wave of bad luck come together in this lovely tale for a heartwarming story of selfle...

The Golden Bird – What Does the Fox Say?

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This tale from the Brothers Grimm is about a kind fox who offers advice again and again. When at last a young man listens, all sorts of golden opportu...

The Dragon Slaying Siblings – Deliverers of their Nation

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Long before Megan and Harry, Edith Nesbit wrote Deliverers of their Nation about Effie and Harry. In this Dragons Tale, they discover (with the help o...

The Blue Rose

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We take you to ancient China where an Emperor puts out an unusual request for the man who may marry his daughter. She turns the tables on him, however...

Adrift On a Lazy River

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There can be no more perfect story on which to wrap up meteorological summer than this one! Join us on an idyllic summer day as six friends who've lov...

The Girl and the Photograph

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this delightful short story by one of Canada's favourite authors, a young man takes a chance on long-distance love with a young woman whose picture...

The Joys of Solitude – A New England Nun

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Louisa has long been engaged to a man named Joe, who left to seek his fortune in Australia. But when he returns, they both find that things have chang...

Princess Rosette

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From the Red Fairy book comes this tale of a princess whose fate is foretold by fairies, and who grows up in a tower. But when she is freed by her bro...

Our Spirit in Nature: Walking with Henry David Thoreau

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this, a different kind of sleep story, we hear the words that philosopher, poet and lover of nature Henry David Thoreau shared many times in his li...

The Locket

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A confederate soldier wears to the battlefield a cherished necklace from his beloved. When it returns to her she mourns, never imagining the surprise ...

Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to this gentle take on an age-old story of the Three Little Pigs. Sometimes it feels right to turn old tales on their heads and imagine a happ...

The Missing Will: An Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Mystery

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A young woman enlists the help of Dame Christie's most famous puzzler solver in this story of a rich uncle who believes that he's outsmarted his orpha...

Thumbelina

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine a little maiden about 2-½ cm (or an inch) tall...who is snatched by a toad, courted by a mole and flown to a land as magical as she herself i...

Pair Of Silk Stockings

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When a woman finds herself with a bit of a windfall, she has great plans for her money, but goes off script in a most delightful way. Enjoy this short...

Sleeping Beauty

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we drift off together in a quiet and very sleepy castle, enjoy a familiar and timeless tale of a princess, an angry fairy, and a 100 year spell bro...

East of the Sun and West of the Moon

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A girl falls in love with a white bear who, as luck would have it, becomes a prince at night. But in a place east of the sun and west of the moon, he'...

A Life Changing Quandary: The Lady or the Tiger

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Long before “Let's Make a Deal” made contestants choose among doors for their bounty or their booby prize comes this tale of a young man sentenced...

Night and Moonlight

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The great American naturalist and essayist Henry David Thoreau takes us on a walk whereupon he ponders the wonders of the moon above, the sights, the ...

Puss In Boots: A Wink and a Wave

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Long before a certain cat put on a hat, a wily feline who also had the gift of the gab was able to turn around his dear master's fortunes in the best ...

The Happy Prince

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join me for a heartwarming story of a statue and his swallow companion. It's about selflessness, sacrifice and true friendship; a lovely tale by Oscar...

The Clever Young Dragon Tamers

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this purr-fectly charming Edith Nesbit tale, a poor blacksmith's family contends with a fiery dungeon guest. With the aid of village children, they...

Why the Sea is Salt: A Fable

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This tale is one that is in no way based in science or fact, but instead one that has been passed on through the generations as somewhat of a cautiona...

The Fairy Frog – A Jewish Fairy Tale

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There once was a young man who listened to the dying wishes of his father. In return he was visited by a strange guest who repaid loyalty with some as...

The Leap Frog & A Little Match Girl

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We depart from the norm with this duo from a favourite author, Hans Christian Andersen: The Leap Frog (about an amphibian who enters a competition to ...

The Island of Nine Whirlpools

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A queen wishes for a baby but when it turns out to be a girl, the king (who's a mad magician) loses it, banishes the girl for being sassy and makes su...

The Sea Fairies

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum comes this charming tale of an old sailor and his young female friend who find themselves leaping past their fe...

Lake of Swans

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Still waters run deep when sorcery and enchantment combine to create a tale of love on a lake, tiaras and tantrums. Birds of a feather, indeed.... Dri...

The White Cat

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Three princes are tasked with finding the most obscure treasures for their father in order to inherit a kingdom. And there's a magical white cat who m...

Rapunzel Reimagined

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When a desperate woman rescues an abandoned baby, she is vilified and fears for her daughter's safety. But a sweet inquisitive bird leads young Rapunz...

Felicia and the Pot of Pink Carnations

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine a time of spells and fairies, of queens and peasant girls, talking animals and happily ever afters. This sums up a story of a poor girl who fi...

The Nightingale and a Rose-Coloured Ending

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Oscar Wilde wrote this heart-wrenching tale of a nightingale that sacrificed its life for a man in love, but I couldn't let you go to sleep on the sad...

Cinderlad and the Princess on the Glass Hill

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You've heard of Cinderella, of course, but this is the tale of a young man kept dirty and humble while his two older brothers go to compete in a conte...