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.
Stories in Letters & Transcripts tagged warm and nostalgic, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 12 to 14 minutes. Writers to know: Ridge Notebook, The Drift Poet and Blue Spell. Readers usually start with “The Sauna Letters” and “The Frequency Board Incident”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
My name is Sally Farrell, I'm forty-four years old, and I have been dating Ken Carlisle for six years now.
You know those days where one small thing goes wrong and then everything else piles on top of it?
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…
Joan Baines was thirty-two years old and bored out of her skull on a Tuesday night in February when she got the idea.
Dear Jameson, or maybe just Jameson since we skipped a few formalities last night, that's how I'm starting this, on a paper napkin from…
The letter started out the way I meant it to, all business, date and everything, a Tuesday in March.
So I manage a deli.
You have to understand, I don't get real mail.
The handwriting got me before the name did.
I turned twenty-eight in March, which is about the least interesting fact about me, but I mention it because my mother asked if I was…