#80: Golders Green, with Tim Marko: the Power of Constraints

Tonight we are joined by Tim Marko, a local author who promotes his children's book by reading it to strangers.  That's right: he approaches passersby and, in a daring display of chutzpah, asks to read Sammy's Sprawl to them. Follow the link to his TikTok, where you can watch videos of these encounters! One of those strangers was our own The Lotus, and... well, now he's here! We chat about the audacity required to put yourself out there and the power constraints offer to the creative mind. Stories begin at the 19 minute mark and include a hasty limerick; a story about a dog; eternal night (the busy season); a rather unliked individual, who died; the unbearable why; and a tale of a cemetery and a serial killer. From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Golders Green. The district of northwest London is synonymous with its crematorium, the resting place of the ashes of many famous people, including Sir Henry Irving, Rudyard Kipling, Neville Chamberlain, Stanley Baldwin, George Bernard Shaw, Ralph Vaughan Williams and T.S. Eliot. It was opened in 1902.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.