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For the holidays

The Letter That Took Forty Years

A letter arrives for your character, forty years late, in their own handwriting. It is a promise they made on a pier one summer, and the person it was meant for is still waiting for an answer.

  • 12 illustrated pages
  • Read online
  • Keep the PDF
  • Illustrated in watercolor

“The postman apologized before he even handed it over.”

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