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…
Stories in Letters & Transcripts tagged breathless and eager, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 14 minutes. Writers to know: Cypress Ledger, West Quill and Echo Ink. Readers usually start with “The Kumite Letter” and “Off-Season Shore”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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…
My last charter of the season dropped me in Charleston on a Thursday with no reason to fly anywhere until spring, and I did what any sane…
My sister Gail asked me twice why I said yes to this thing with Jarrod, so I finally wrote it out on paper while the front desk was dead.
I planned on writing him a note from the start.
I moved to Cedar Falls six months ago with two crock pots, a folding table, and a business plan my sister called "aggressive."
The first letter came under my door on a Tuesday, which matters because Tuesdays are when Toby the super supposedly fixes things in the…
*This one was born from a thought about birthdays and what it means to let someone see you fresh, even when they already know your history.
I'm Bri Rios, forty-two years old, and I have been the tour manager for this band for six years.
I found the letter on a Tuesday in March, the same Tuesday I finally packed up Denise's stuff, which took four months because I kept…
I can handle the pump myself.
*This one started with a question: what happens when you ask an actor to stop performing for five minutes?
I wrote the email on a Tuesday night, sitting at my kitchen table with a bowl of leftover soup going cold next to my laptop.
October 14, 8:47 p.m.