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Modern Day Epistolary

Dear love,

If you are reading this, Josiah, I want you to know I love and forgive you for your actions. But be that as it may, I hope the guilt eats you alive because that’s what you deserve. I am only wishing you well as a mother. My emotions are confusing, I know, but you must understand me.

I am writing this to you from Sheki, Latvia, and I specifically told Miss Sutherland to only give you this letter five years after my death. It’s only because I don’t want to see you beg for forgiveness and mercy, and it would kill me to reject you and watch you rot in front of my eyes, so it might as well happen after my eyes have already rotten.

 

I admit that I, too, feel like a murderer (yes, love, that’s what I see you as) because I have deliberately ignored the conspicuous conundrum in our society for my own benefit and may have led many to their deaths. Maybe if I had actually been a murderer, I would have only killed your father, and perhaps that would have been the only way to save you from this fate. I am sorry I didn’t kill your father, love.

Love/hate, mom.

 

Dear mom,

For the umpteenth time, I am sorry I ran over that cat. Like I have told you a gazillion times, I wasn’t looking because Dad was talking about the college tuition. I am sorry. I tried to save it, but it died on the way to the hospital. And I apologize on behalf of Dad because he didn’t give the cat a proper funeral. I am sorry he talked. I am totally on board with shoving this on his head.

But please come home. I need to talk about a boy. Dad is not apt for it. You are more tactful. It’s been two days. You shouldn’t be troubling Miss Sutherland for this long. She gave me the letter 5 years too early because I think she is starting to get sick of you. (P.S. You are mowing her lawn, wrong).

Love, Josiah. (P.S. Sheki is in Azerbaijan.)

 

–        Sandra Saji Kallarackal, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Writers’ Association, Kristu Jayanti College, Autonomous, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, provides a venue where the young writers at their College can practice what they’ve learned, explore new ideas, and connect with others in the writing community. The association encourages them to present and publish their work.

 

 

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