#84: Making "Fetch" Happen, with Willow Vincenty

This week we welcome author Willow Vincenty to the pod. She brings her character-crafting A-game to Fetch, the final episode in this year's spooky season. We have several excellent and spooky ghost stories (beginning at the 16:45 mark) for you this week, featuring a fetch; another fetch; 4 micro stories; a mortician who gets murdered (and doesn't mind all that much); and... another one about a fetch. Happy Halloween, y'all. From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: fetch In Irish and north of England folklore, the apparition of a living person; one's spirit-double, iden- tical in appearance, even to details of dress. A fetch can be seen usually only by persons with second sight. It is most commonly seen, however, by a special friend or near relative just before or at the moment of death of the original. If it is seen in the morning it is thought to presage longevity for the original; its appearance at night means he is about to die or has just died. The fetch usually comes walking along easily and casually and disappears across the fields or through a gap in a hedge. If it seems to be agitated or distressed, a violent death is known to be in store for the original. One's fetch is even occasionally seen by oneself. 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.