August 6th 1890
Mr Gautier Drobetskoy
Editor
Fish Pond Publishing
100 Karl Liebknech-Straße
Berlin, Germany
My dear editor,
Within the enclosed documents are my final drafts of Blythe’s Wheelbarrow. I sincerely hope you will enjoy my novel and understand how much this means to me, as this is not just a mere story, but so much more. It’s a memory. Now that I’m older, I realise that I can’t keep it contained inside my little mental box of nostalgia forever, and therefore wish to share it with anyone who cares to hear my little tale. It’s not a lot, but I hope that it will make you contemplate the value of life a little.
Please, dear editor, if you have something to say to someone, don’t hold it back. I’m not just talking about confessing your love to your childhood sweetheart, although that’s something I wish I had done as well; I’m talking about something much more. Regret is a strong emotion and it can be hard to truly understand the intensity of it. Then again, it’s an emotion you don’t really want to experience anyway.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. It means a lot to me.
-Thomason Vestel