Featured Letters from the past

Time Travelled — 12 months

The Future Without Me

Dear FutureMe, Well, it's that time already--the future--and here it looks like i missed it. Dammit--this has been the story of my life, but lemme tell ya, I'm not too sad about it, since i think i was fortunate enought to not only live in an amazing time in humankind's history, but i've also done much with the relatively limited funds and resources presented to me by my lot in life. Yes in...

Time Travelled — 12 months

Quarter century plus two

It's the day after your birthday right now, and you've spent the day looking for jobs in a dance studio and realizing that you should have stuck with one thing that you enjoyed instead of trying to do the "practical" thing and getting nowhere. You're about to embark on a pretty big adventure - leaving Dr. Jones to his ridiculous girlfriend and moving to San Diego. You have absolutely no idea ...

Time Travelled — about 1 year

where are you and what are you doing

Dear FutureMe, sometimes you think that you have no future in creative writing and really should adopt something more practical, more fitting of your skills.. which is to walk around going LA LA LA LA which is waht a creative writing MFA is starting to sound like. so far you're biggest writing achievement is making out with a somewhat famous professor. you're afraid you're going...

Time Travelled — 12 months

The Future is Here

Dear FutureMe, I wonder if you even will remember you sent this. Seems impossible but you've forgotten more important things before in less time, so it's possible lol, and yet not lol eh? So you're 30, big deal, except for fuck's sake I hope you've gotten some things figured out, and fixed your teeth up and gotten healthier diet wise. Where are you living now? Sarah is asleep here on my bed...

Time Travelled — 11 months

Your grandfather

today, is the seventh anniversary of the passing of my beloved grandpa. (yong chun kang). i hope i went to church today to remember him, and say a prayer for him. i loved him very much. he was my absolute favorite. when i was little, i used to count down the days til he came from korea to visit us. i loved when he came to visit. he would always bring bags (mom calls them immigration bags) ...

Time Travelled — 12 months

My recent birthday

Dear FutureMe, I turned 38 five days ago. I currently work two jobs, graveyard shift and day shift, averaging about 60 hours a week. My husband has one job averaging about 25 hours a week. My daughter will probably go to prison at the end of this month for drug charges. She's an addict. She's stopped using the hard stuff, I think, but she's still refusing to stop all of it. She's only 2...

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