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.
Dry and wry letters & transcripts stories
Stories in Letters & Transcripts tagged dry and wry, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 14 minutes. Writers to know: Tangent of Ridge, Quartz Bridge and Echo Ink. Readers usually start with “The Currant Mite Letter” and “When the Doorbell Betrays You”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Dry and wry letters & transcripts stories, ranked by readers
01 02 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…
03 The Five A.M. Map
I wrote the email the night before the funeral, which I know sounds bad, but hear me out.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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…
07 The Thank You Letter
So here's how it started, and I swear on my dead husband's toolbox that this is the true version.
08 The Stranger in My Kitchen
Okay so let me set the scene for you.
09 The Postcards from Port Blakely
The night Vernon left, I did the math on the motel receipt and laughed.
10 Broom Closet Letters
I found out something about myself last March: I can write a dirty letter with a mop in one hand.
11 Voicemail from the Pro Shop
My name is Mack Cosgrove, I'm forty-five, and I run the golf side of Dorothy Finch's cider mill here in Pembrokeshire.
12 Air in the Bones
I'm sitting on Timmy's porch with a glass of iced tea going warm beside me, and I want the record to show that when he asked me to water…
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