#90: Selkie, with Sandwich

Tonight we welcome the winner of Story Wars: After Dark! Sandwich shares her journey as a writer; how it feels to get back into the hobby after becoming a parent; and the kind of chutzpah it takes to walk into a stranger's basement and record a podcast. Stories begin around the 18:15 mark and include a gross dudebro; a woman who finds out her husband is not who she thought he was; a meditation on killing taboos; and a day in the life of a tortured academic.  From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:  Selkie (From Scottish English sealgh, 'seal'). In the folklore of the Orkney and Shetland islands, a seal-like sea creature with the capacity to take human form on land. Super- stitions against killing seals often had the selkie as their rationale. 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.