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As you check your mail, you notice a letter that makes you stop in your tracks.

Posted in Thriller and Suspense on Oct 26, 2022

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“The Letter That Ended Lives” by Addison Holtz

Submitted to Contest #47

It is early Wednesday morning, and you wake up to the sounds of the mailman dropping off packages. You start to get ready for school. You put on your socks, shoes, and grab a toasted waffle on the way out the door. As you walk down to the bus stop, you grab the mail. You run back inside to leave the mail on the counter, and notice one letter is from your friend from school. You leave it there to read later and rush outside to hop on the bus to your private school. As you get there, you realize you forgot your social studies homework. You gro...

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“The Letter” by Bettina Karpathian

Submitted to Contest #47

You opened my letter? You are my daughter and that was a very disrespectful thing to do. You are trying to deny me this correspondence with a friend, one of the few pleasures left? You might be concerned, but it’s not necessary for you to get involved in things that are none of your business. You wouldn't like it if I opened your mail and butted into your life. If you must know, Nicholas is a good friend of ours from our youth. He, your father and I all went to college together. He got in touch to offer condolences after your father died. I...

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“The Pineapple Murderer” by Brooke Tango

Submitted to Contest #47

On a mid- August summer morning, you walked up to the mailbox retrieving the mail for your mother. You were rummaging through the envelopes, hoping to find a letter from your boyfriend, Steve, who you hadn’t heard from since he left for football camp. The camp he was attending wouldn’t allow any electronics and only letters. You hoped to find a letter from him. The last time you received a letter was over two week ago. Woefully, you sighed. You reached for the mailbox to close it, then noticed a small envelope with a red, wax seal in the b...

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“Sunless” by Angel Brookins

Submitted to Contest #47

It seemed like just another day. You got up and ate breakfast. You turned on the news, and were shocked at the continued unrest and rise in cases of covid 19.   You scrolled through your facebook and shook your head sadly at the apparent stupidity of so many of the people that you had always considered to be reasonable and intelligent.  You checked your email and decided to write in your journal.   This is your journal entry for today, June 21, 2020, Midsummer, the day that follows the s...

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“The Mailbox” by Kay O'connell

Submitted to Contest #47

You never did mind going out to get the mail- it was the bringing it in that was the problem. Going outside, that was fine. Taking a stroll, getting some sun (sometimes for the first time that day), that was all well and fine. Ambling up the long winding driveway, perfect. It was the old rusty mailbox on the corner, right next to that dangerous road that people took way to fast- that was the issue. It was the way that that hinge needed to be fixed. It squeaked horribly, needed to be yanked open, nearly pulling the rotting mailbox peg out of ...

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“The mail ” by Shrestha Sengupta

Submitted to Contest #47

Out of my regular habit of checking mails after I woke up, that day was no different. I checked my mails as soon as I woke up , replied to some and then looked at the clock to notice that I was fashionably late. I was unable to check the mails for the last few days as I had a pretty busy week in office. As I was heading towards the top I noticed a mail from an unknown resource saying noreply, dated 15th June i.e. 7 days ago from today. I opened the mail and what it said, made me sweat from head to toe and miserably happy . The mail was writt...

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“MR.POSTMAN” by Tania Vela

Submitted to Contest #47

Well you have to know that checking the mail can be quite a different experience daily. And everyone you and I and all before us and many after us. Will be waiting on the postman.Theres going to be either good news or bad news. And definitely bills credit card statements to remind you of all the fun you had 2 weekends ago right? I check my mail everyday like you should. Then there's the ones like my mother who don't check their mail for days. Which I'm sure frustrates the postman. I mean you could only imagine having to stuff more mail into ...

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“ The Bright Red Envelope” by Joyce Schook

Submitted to Contest #47

The letter was unexpected. It sat at the bottom of the enormous pile of mail you stood sifting through.The bright red envelope was hard to miss.You turned it over in your hands and read the return address. You froze in place. You clearly didn't expect this today.Then you remove it along with the rest of the contents from your mailbox. The return trip up the driveway all that you could think of was why it had arrived and what did it say. After setting the pile on top of the granite counter in your kitchen, you retrieve the red envelope and br...

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“Reaching Out” by Ajay B

Submitted to Contest #47

Right before returning home after an obnoxiously long day at work, you stop at the mailbox. You didn’t check your USPS Informed Delivery email like you normally do, but you’re not expecting anything other than bills, bills, and more bills. Maybe you should have checked your email before you checked your mailbox.  At the top of the stack of mail is an envelope with neat, cursive handwriting you haven’t seen in years. The penmanship looked a little shakier than you remember it, but you know the writer. The same writer whose cursive was ...

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“Jimmy's Letter” by Gary Crawford

Submitted to Contest #47

I was going through some of my things and I found this. I was supposed to give this to you. When I got home, I just threw it all in the closet. I didn’t want to look anything over. I was home. For me, the war was over. I was a civilian again. You can take this uniform and burn it. Whoever said war was all glory and patriotic and romantic never had bullets flying over his head. Probably some brass hat in a nice office somewhere. Fighting over useless miles of desert. Ridiculous. If those people want to kill each other, let them. We’re on...

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“The Holy Trident” by M.R. Zeener

Submitted to Contest #47

As the main glass door of your house opened, you stepped outside with a cup of coffee in your right hand. ‘A beautiful morning indeed’ you think to yourself as you admire the beauty of the rain which is dripping off the orange leaves of the lowest hanging branches. The orange grass on your lawn radiates vibrantly in the rain. ‘Beautiful’ you murmur under your breath. ‘Athena!’ you call out looking at your left hand. A tiny blue dot pops up on your wrist followed by the ringing of a familiar note in your In-Ear implant. ‘Yes?’ responds the ...

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“The stalker” by Pamela Farrugia

Submitted to Contest #47

Did you ever have a sensation of being observed? From a few days now, I feel like someone is watching me, and everywhere I go, I feel like someone is breathing over my shoulders, but every time I turn, I see no one. It is freaking me out, I told my friend Genevieve, but she said that I read too much mystery books and need to calm down. So today I have taken a day off and went on full-day shopping with her. I feel exhausted, my feet hurt, and had spent a lot of money on shoes and clothes which I don't think I will ever wear. Finally, I arri...

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“A Perfect Escape” by Cassidy Kidwell

Submitted to Contest #47

You left the successful life you had, your stay at home wife, your 2 beautiful children to start anew in another state. You had told your wife you were going deep sea fishing so you could get away without their being any evidence, a seemingly perfect escape. You had been gone months now, restarted in New Jersey. Now you were a small accountant instead of being a small town fish market owner. You were nowhere near as acquainted with everyone as you were in Hawaii. Who would've ever guessed you would need to run away from the life you had buil...

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“You’re Late” by Ted Villamarzo

Submitted to Contest #47

I know you.               You’re the kind of man who thinks you are your own man. Intelligent, proud, a man of your word, decisive, and you don’t accept any guff from anybody. A strong man with a strong will.               Every day, you make your regular morning run at a steady gait around the neighborhood, which have been built almost a century ago. You are pleased with the old style neighborhood, ...

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“The Black and White Crow” by ACE Concepcion

Submitted to Contest #47

As you check your mail you notice a letter that makes you stop in your tracks. It’s a letter from a real estate agent.  Its been a year since your mother died and your father is thinking of selling the house. This house that held a lot of memories to you good and bad and you treasure all of it. You barely had any interactions with your father since the burial of your mother. He had always been busy with his job and you two never had time to check up on each other he never even went to any school activities that you participated in. This...

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