Dear Amanda,
My professor asked the class to read a short story and summarize it to someone in a letter. We read “A Fable for the Living” by Kevin Brockmeier. The story starts out as a place in the country that does not physically exist. The characters in the story are described as some living and some deceased. The living didn’t simply speak to their dead loved ones out loud, they would write letters to them and lay them in deep rifts formed in dirt. They believed this was the way to speak to their loved ones who passed over. A woman loses her husband and puts her letters in the dirt, which surprisingly he replies in his own letters. The reason I am writing you this letter is because you left this earth 6 days ago, and when I read the woman’s pain and how she felt after losing someone important to her, it reminded me of the pain I felt losing you. I feel the need to write to you from my place of sadness. It kills me knowing that addiction got the best of you, and is the reason you left this world in the first place. I wish that I could write you letters and receive a reply, but I know you listen every time I talk out loud to you. The only thing that gives me piece of mind is knowing you are now pain free, free from this disease, and reunited with your mother.
I love you and I look forward to the day I get to see your contagious smile again,
Alexis
My professor asked the class to read a short story and summarize it to someone in a letter. We read “A Fable for the Living” by Kevin Brockmeier. The story starts out as a place in the country that does not physically exist. The characters in the story are described as some living and some deceased. The living didn’t simply speak to their dead loved ones out loud, they would write letters to them and lay them in deep rifts formed in dirt. They believed this was the way to speak to their loved ones who passed over. A woman loses her husband and puts her letters in the dirt, which surprisingly he replies in his own letters. The reason I am writing you this letter is because you left this earth 6 days ago, and when I read the woman’s pain and how she felt after losing someone important to her, it reminded me of the pain I felt losing you. I feel the need to write to you from my place of sadness. It kills me knowing that addiction got the best of you, and is the reason you left this world in the first place. I wish that I could write you letters and receive a reply, but I know you listen every time I talk out loud to you. The only thing that gives me piece of mind is knowing you are now pain free, free from this disease, and reunited with your mother.
I love you and I look forward to the day I get to see your contagious smile again,
Alexis