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Dear Mrs. H,
A matchmaker meets her Waterloo. And a cautionary tale for bachelors who are eyeing matrimony but won't splash some water in their wine.
Mar 82 min read
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Dear Mr. Friedman,
It’s the summer of 2016 and Petal Harmond has come to New York City to become a writer. Of the many hurdles impeding the achievement of...
Jan 63 min read
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Dear Leonardo,
Irene Walken, a promising lyric mezzo-soprano with a distinctly metallic timbre graduated with great fanfare from the Royal Academy of...
Dec 12, 20244 min read
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Dear Vladimir,
Vladimir Russov is a car-salesman but he is not just any car salesman. Vladimir (Vlad to his friends, ‘Vladim that scoundrel I married’...
Sep 12, 20244 min read
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Dear Maisie,
Four excruciatingly boring years into retirement ex ninth-grade school teacher, Hal Pryce discovers a delightful new pastime. He looks up...
Jun 4, 20243 min read
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Dear Hyacinth,
Allie Cretzler and Hyacinth Pinkerton have been co-workers at a Manhattan-based brokerage firm for the last 20 years, Allie is the Senior...
May 27, 20246 min read
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Dear Tamara,
Tamara Horland fell in love with Benjamin Stark-Harriman late one Saturday night in the A&E. She had rushed there when the deboning of a...
Apr 20, 20244 min read
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Dear Chester,
Every morning at 7am, Eustace Govern walks 3.4 miles to the Blue Jay Café opposite the local hospital. It’s an antiquity, like its...
Mar 14, 20244 min read
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Dear Seat 38, Coach J,
Every weekday Darius Motabbit takes the 07:13 from Bath Spa to London Paddington and returns on the 17:30. In the decade that he has...
Feb 10, 20243 min read
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Dear Pete,
Sandra loves Pete but Pete is allergic to cats. The one thing Sandra loves more than her grandma’s pearls, her flute medals and certainly...
Feb 6, 20243 min read
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Dear Jocelyn,
Skip Ludlow knows a thing or two about shoes. His great, great grandfather had none; he sported rags tied with twine. His great...
Feb 6, 20243 min read
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Dear Barista,
Agatha Basildon is in love with the barista at Great Beans Roasters. She, a devotee of tea, and he, a worshipper at the altar of the...
Jan 12, 20243 min read
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Dear Grandma,
Louise “Lou” Webber hasn’t been home in a decade. Shunned for trying to break her beloved grandpop Zachary out of a retirement community...
Oct 10, 20233 min read
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Dear Aimee,
Four-times a bridesmaid, never a bride, Sonja Graham lobbied hard for the Maid of Honor role at her baby sister's wedding but Aimee...
Mar 3, 20223 min read
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Dear Jürgen,
Jürgen Koskinen’s agent, Marti, is trying to let him down gently. He has suffered through six excruciating drafts of Jürgen’s latest...
Feb 17, 20223 min read
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Dear Antoine,
Antoine Demers is in a bind. Noelle, his fiancé, has forbidden him from inviting his darling Maman to their cake tasting. What she does...
Dec 31, 20213 min read
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Dear Guapo,
Don "Puffy" Adams has been double-conned. His wife lured him out for a gentle stroll that turned into an intense hike led by the...
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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Dear to Whom it May Concern,
Sofia Ikariotis (68) is livid! She set out this morning to catch a flight to Ioannina to visit her cousin, Tasoula who is suffering from...
Aug 12, 20213 min read
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Dear Mrs. Martinez,
Little Victor Abrego (9) is in trouble. An impish boy, he rarely returns home without scraped knees, gashed hands, or a bloody nose. All...
Aug 10, 20212 min read
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Dear Mr. Douglass,
Stamatia "Stacey" Papadakis (22) came to the Big Apple to "make it". The excitement of escaping from her suffocating village, in the...
Jul 6, 20213 min read
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DISCLAIMER: This blog and all the letters and stories are works of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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