#27: Swan Maidens

This week the Cru is inspired by the fairy-tale prompt, Swan Maidens, to write prose, poems, and even ranting conversations. You won't want to miss this week's stories featuring multiple fantastical animal-human transformations, wars, and strange therapy sessions. We also discuss the writing craft and the inspiration behind each of our pieces. From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Swan maidens. Fairies of northern folklore, who can become maidens or swans at will by means of the swan shift, a magic garment of swan's feathers. Many stories are told of how the swan shift was stolen, and the fairy was obliged to remain thrall to the thief until rescued by a knight. Stories begin around the 8:30 mark.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.