#58: Concierge

Who are the ancillary-- but unnoticed-- characters of our own lives? The Cru provide their answers in fictional form on this week's episode.  Stories begin around the 12:45 mark and include a childhood memory; a quest for pure beauty; a day in a gas station; and a psychedelic trip that gets less trippy as the protagonist imbibes in more drugs. From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Concierge. The doorkeeper or porter of a block of flats in France, traditionally a middle-aged or elderly woman who makes it her business to know every detail of her residents' private lives and who marks every coming and going.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.