NaNo09 - Letters ii
Dear Ewan,
Thanks for piping up! You're a peach, and yes, I recognize that isn't the slang where you come from. So, your name, your educational history, your sister, your cat, all good. Can we get a little deeper? Maybe start with the coffee thing? And just for the time being I've said your parents live in Edinburgh. Really, though? Come on.
No rush, we're not nearly there yet.
Much love,
the Author
PS--what's your favorite book? You know, the one that you're inevitably going to relate everything back to. I know you think Millie should read Persuasion... anything else?
Dear Dr Baldwin
My congratulations, sir, on your career. Not nearly enough people have given you the recognition you deserve for your life of service, and for all the lives you've saved and improved.
I apologize most sincerely about your wife. It would be extremely disrespectful to lie to you, so I won't say it was for anything more than convenience and thematic consistency as regards your daughter, which is why I am sorry, I am so sorry.
I hope you can take the offered olive branch when the time comes, and let things be the way they need to.
Yr Obt Srvt,
the Author
Dear Millie,
I hope you like reading Austen, my dear. Well, if you don't, you probably will. Who are your favorite authors? I do rather hope you don't read Mrs Radcliffe, because I haven't. Does your father even let novels in the house? Just what is it you like to do?
That's all for now, dear. Please do ask Charlotte to pipe up a little.
Love,
the Author
Dear Mike,
Well, aren't you the lucky boy? All the way from America, studying at Oxford on scholarship, and intern to a professor-- please tell me what his name is. I really need to know. And you better learn to do a passable Cockney accent pretty quick, or a lot more lying than strictly necessary is going to be involved.
Why haven't you talked to this Claire yet? She's cute.
Love,
the Author
Thanks for piping up! You're a peach, and yes, I recognize that isn't the slang where you come from. So, your name, your educational history, your sister, your cat, all good. Can we get a little deeper? Maybe start with the coffee thing? And just for the time being I've said your parents live in Edinburgh. Really, though? Come on.
No rush, we're not nearly there yet.
Much love,
the Author
PS--what's your favorite book? You know, the one that you're inevitably going to relate everything back to. I know you think Millie should read Persuasion... anything else?
Dear Dr Baldwin
My congratulations, sir, on your career. Not nearly enough people have given you the recognition you deserve for your life of service, and for all the lives you've saved and improved.
I apologize most sincerely about your wife. It would be extremely disrespectful to lie to you, so I won't say it was for anything more than convenience and thematic consistency as regards your daughter, which is why I am sorry, I am so sorry.
I hope you can take the offered olive branch when the time comes, and let things be the way they need to.
Yr Obt Srvt,
the Author
Dear Millie,
I hope you like reading Austen, my dear. Well, if you don't, you probably will. Who are your favorite authors? I do rather hope you don't read Mrs Radcliffe, because I haven't. Does your father even let novels in the house? Just what is it you like to do?
That's all for now, dear. Please do ask Charlotte to pipe up a little.
Love,
the Author
Dear Mike,
Well, aren't you the lucky boy? All the way from America, studying at Oxford on scholarship, and intern to a professor-- please tell me what his name is. I really need to know. And you better learn to do a passable Cockney accent pretty quick, or a lot more lying than strictly necessary is going to be involved.
Why haven't you talked to this Claire yet? She's cute.
Love,
the Author