• “I wish I had a true good thing to tell you” | Letter 2

    Dear Georgiana, I wish I had a true good thing to tell you. Instead let me remind you of good things that exist. I think this will help even if you nor I ever touch these foreign realities (though your odds are better than mine). Georgiana: there are children with plenty to eat and plethora blankets and…

  • “I’m Extra Lonely Is All” | Letter 1

    Dear Alice, I don’t have a story to tell you. All I’ve got is this life I’ve lived, and you already know all about that. Nothin’s been on my mind. Not ā€œnoā€ ā€œthingā€ā€”just the idea of it. Thinking of that gets me thinking bad things. Things a person should never want to think about. Could…

  • Thomas Preston Looks Up: Part 1

    Thomas Preston wasn’t an unusual man. He wore medium-sized horn-rimmed glasses, dark blue jeans, sported a Grade 3 haircut, and kept a clean-shave—his wife liked his baby face unhidden by red scruff, and he didn’t mind the routine of a fresh shave in the a.m. He filled the sink with warm water and shook the…