Boots on the Wrong Feet
I'm forty-three years old, I teach sports medicine at a university, and I have published two papers on injury prevention, so you would…
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01 02 The Cork Market Letters
Letter 1 Dear James, You left the market paperwork on the kitchen table again, so I figured I'd write instead of texting.
03 Ghost Route Letters
The first letter arrived on a Tuesday, which I remember because Tuesdays are dead at the salon and I had time to stand at the window and…
04 Deep Brine
I want to tell you about the strangest Saturday of my life, but you have to know I'm thirty-four years old and I still make bad decisions…
05 Letters from the Wild Garlic
**Letter One** Dear Calvin, I'm writing this from the hotel lobby in Lamentin, which has the kind of furniture that pretends to be antique…
06 The Sauna Letters
My name is Sally Farrell, I'm forty-four years old, and I have been dating Ken Carlisle for six years now.
07 The Frequency Board Incident
You know those days where one small thing goes wrong and then everything else piles on top of it?
08 Moss Light Signals
The whole thing started over a hatpin holder, which is not a sentence I ever expected to say out loud, and yet here I am, thirty-four…
09 keys to the walk-in
I turned twenty-five on a Tuesday, and I closed the restaurant alone.
10 The Currant Mite Letter
The cracked bird feeder has been sitting on my porch rail for six months now and I still haven't thrown it away.
11 Latte, Lies, and Late-Night Lessons
I wrote the email at 11:40 on a Tuesday night, sitting at my kitchen table in socks and an old flannel shirt, and I deleted it three times…
12 The Platen Knob Proposition
Subject: so about last night Chris, Okay so I'm writing this at my kitchen table with coffee I have already reheated twice, and I am going…
13 Ink and Stone
I almost died in March, which is how this whole thing started, and I need to explain it from the beginning because if you found this tin…
14 The Kumite Letter
I want to start by saying I'm fifty-four years old and I've been an electrician for thirty-one years, and I have never once done anything…
15 When the Doorbell Betrays You
I am thirty-six years old and supposedly a professional, and I sat on the bed of a portside inn in Nova Scotia with a pen in my hand…
16 The Five A.M. Map
I wrote the email the night before the funeral, which I know sounds bad, but hear me out.
17 Knob and Shell
Dear Lamar, I am sixty-two years old and I am writing you a letter because if I had to say this out loud I would rather be swallowed by…
18 Letters from the Front Row
I am fifty-two years old and I let a forty-five year old woman talk me into emailing a total stranger.
19 Barely Surface
Okay, so here's how I'm going to tell this, because telling it out loud in order makes my face hot and I have to work in twenty minutes.
20 Wax and Heart
I'm Sherrie, I'm twenty-two, and I moved up to the Mao Mountains seven months ago with one duffel bag and a job tightening the caps on…