#16: To Gird Up One's Loins

We bring you nothing but holiday tales on this Christmas Eve edition.  The Cru is joined by B52 for his first regular episode (he appeared on FreeWrite#1, our little Thanksgiving interlude).  B52 is a local engineer who wrote with us during the early days of the pandemic, but has not written much since.  He is girding up his loins and joining us once again, using the Radio FreeWrite method to improve his storytelling. Stories feature interplanetary journeys; an obligatory Santa; werewolves & vampires; a night at the club; a handful of boxes; and one particularly bellicose child.References from the evening: Twilight Baseball Scene  - Opus Christmas Carol   - Moth Joke  From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: To Gird Up One's Loins. To  prepare  for  hard work  or  a  journey.  The  Jews  wore  a  girdle only  when  at  work  or  on  a  journey.  Even  to the  present  day,  Eastern  people  who  wear  loose dresses  gird  them  about  the  loins.Like this weeks episode and wish you could read as well as listen? Subscribe to our Substack for a summary of our opening discussion, a story from the episode, and a writing prompt!  Be sure to follow us on Instagram (if that's your sort of thing). Please do send us an email with your story if you write along, which we hope you will do. Episodes of Radio FreeWrite are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. All Stories remain the property of their respective authors.