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…
Stories in Letters & Transcripts tagged exes, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 11 to 15 minutes. Writers to know: Starling Observer, Sable Key and Wren Table. Readers usually start with “Ghost Route Letters” and “keys to the walk-in”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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…
I turned twenty-five on a Tuesday, and I closed the restaurant alone.
The cracked bird feeder has been sitting on my porch rail for six months now and I still haven't thrown it away.
I wrote the first letter at two in the morning in the ambulance bay, sitting on the bumper of Rig Two with the bay doors open because 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 can handle the pump myself.
You know how it goes when the house gets quiet?
My name is Mack Cosgrove, I'm forty-five, and I run the golf side of Dorothy Finch's cider mill here in Pembrokeshire.
So there I was, sixty-three years old, twelve years a security guard and four years happily single, and I get an email from Alec on a…