Each page has a title and 15 words you can use in the body of your story.
Here we go: writing a letter that you’re too afraid to send
15 words: correspond, note, send, message, intercept, enclosed, secret, desire, open, carry, credit, stamp, travel, dearest, invitation
DEAREST, who writes letters anymore anyway? We CORRESPOND via social media now. Letters and NOTEs are passé at best. SENDing a MESSAGE via social media scares the fire out of me. The message I wanted to write wasn’t a SECRET. The thought never crossed my mind that the addressee would actually be the one OPENing the letter. Someone else would INTERCEPT it and no doubt throw it in the trash.
Do I write it? Back and forth like two heavy weight boxers I fought with myself just to write it. I did. Written in haste. Did it even make sense? I didn’t care. Another round of fighting ensued; mail it? Give my nerves over to the mail CARRier? Let it TRAVEL around the world? ENCLOSEd was a DESIRE to reach out into the abyss. An assumed INVITATION, with a STAMP on it to respond back.
Could it be? Would it be? Could I give the USPS CREDIT for a job well done?
I may go to my grave never knowing if my letter was delivered. All I can do is wonder, wait, think that it got filed in the dead letter office never to be read? Never to see the light of day. Too scared to get delivered. Too embarrassed to be read.
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