Dear Barista,
Agatha Basildon is in love with the barista at Great Beans Roasters. She, a devotee of tea, and he, a worshipper at the altar of the...
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THE COFFEE LETTERS
Espresso, flat white, mocha or cold brew.
Each cup of coffee is as particular as the person drinking it.
And they all have a story to tell.
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Sep 124 min
Dear Vladimir,
Vladimir Russov is a car-salesman but he is not just any car salesman. Vladimir (Vlad to his friends, ‘Vladim that scoundrel I married’...
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Jun 43 min
Dear Maisie,
Four excruciatingly boring years into retirement ex ninth-grade school teacher, Hal Pryce discovers a delightful new pastime. He looks up...
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May 276 min
Dear Hyacinth,
Allie Cretzler and Hyacinth Pinkerton have been co-workers at a Manhattan-based brokerage firm for the last 20 years, Allie is the Senior...
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Apr 204 min
Dear Tamara,
Tamara Horland fell in love with Benjamin Stark-Harriman late one Saturday night in the A&E. She had rushed there when the deboning of a...
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Mar 144 min
Dear Chester,
Every morning at 7am, Eustace Govern walks 3.4 miles to the Blue Jay Café opposite the local hospital. It’s an antiquity, like its...
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Feb 103 min
Dear Seat 38, Coach J,
Every weekday Darius Motabbit takes the 07:13 from Bath Spa to London Paddington and returns on the 17:30. In the decade that he has...
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Feb 63 min
Dear Pete,
Sandra loves Pete but Pete is allergic to cats. The one thing Sandra loves more than her grandma’s pearls, her flute medals and certainly...
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Feb 63 min
Dear Jocelyn,
Skip Ludlow knows a thing or two about shoes. His great, great grandfather had none; he sported rags tied with twine. His great...
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Oct 10, 20233 min
Dear Grandma,
Louise “Lou” Webber hasn’t been home in a decade. Shunned for trying to break her beloved grandpop Zachary out of a retirement community...
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Mar 3, 20223 min
Dear Aimee,
Four-times a bridesmaid, never a bride, Sonja Graham lobbied hard for the Maid of Honor role at her baby sister's wedding but Aimee...
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Feb 17, 20223 min
Dear Jürgen,
Jürgen Koskinen’s agent is trying to let him down gently. He has suffered through six excruciating drafts of Jürgen’s latest ‘dirty cop...
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Dec 31, 20213 min
Dear Antoine,
Antoine Demers is in a bind. Noelle, his fiancé, has forbidden him from inviting his darling Maman to their cake tasting. What she does...
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Nov 11, 20212 min
Dear Guapo,
Don "Puffy" Adams has been double-conned. His wife lured him out for a gentle stroll that turned into an intense hike led by the...
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Aug 12, 20213 min
Dear to Whom it May Concern,
Sofia Ikariotis (68) is livid! She set out this morning to catch a flight to Ioannina to visit her cousin, Tasoula who is suffering from...
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Aug 10, 20212 min
Dear Mrs. Martinez,
Little Victor Abrego (9) is in trouble. An impish boy, he rarely returns home without scraped knees, gashed hands, or a bloody nose. All...
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Jul 6, 20213 min
Dear Mr. Douglass,
Stamatia "Stacey" Papadakis (22) came to the Big Apple to "make it". The excitement of escaping from her suffocating village, in the...
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Jul 1, 20214 min
Dear Blaze,
Blaze Porter (30-something or early 40s, it depends who's asking) is the fearsome leader of the yummy-mommy contingent at Morchand House...
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Jun 18, 20213 min
Dear Ryder,
Xavier Stockwell (17) is the newly ousted, bass guitarist of a high-school garage rock band. An introverted, sensitive child who was too...
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Jun 9, 20212 min
Dear Slim,
Joe Mason has never been a sentimental man. A retired army training officer, he had a reputation amongst new recruits as being one tough...
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DISCLAIMER: This blog is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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