Letters of thanks, letters from banks,
Letters of joy from the girl and the boy,
Receipted bills and invitations
To inspect new stock or visit relations,
And applications for situations
And timid lovers' declarations
And gossip, gossip from all the nations,
News circumstantial, news financial,
Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in,
Letters with faces scrawled in the margin,
Letters from uncles, cousins, and aunts,
Letters to Scotland from the South of France,
Letters of condolence to Highlands and Lowlands
Notes from overseas to Hebrides
Written on paper of every hue,
The pink, the violet, the white and the blue,
The chatty, the catty, the boring, adoring,
The cold and official and the heart's outpouring,
Clever, stupid, short and long,
The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong.
Letters of joy from the girl and the boy,
Receipted bills and invitations
To inspect new stock or visit relations,
And applications for situations
And timid lovers' declarations
And gossip, gossip from all the nations,
News circumstantial, news financial,
Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in,
Letters with faces scrawled in the margin,
Letters from uncles, cousins, and aunts,
Letters to Scotland from the South of France,
Letters of condolence to Highlands and Lowlands
Notes from overseas to Hebrides
Written on paper of every hue,
The pink, the violet, the white and the blue,
The chatty, the catty, the boring, adoring,
The cold and official and the heart's outpouring,
Clever, stupid, short and long,
The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong.
from Night Mail by W.H. Auden
In honour of my sister who helped me think of fun diseases for the last challenge, this month's challenge is "Mail Call".
Letters from home, letters to a ship, official reports back to headquarters. It can be whatever you want - but it has to feature communication by mail (recorded video feed -or whatever they actually call it in Trek - is allowed
)
I've gone through the winning entries and I don't see this anywhere - but I know there are some missing. So if this has been done before let me know and I'll give you plan B.
So, the details:
Challenge Title: Mail Call
Story length: 2,000
Allowable characters: Anyone / any time so long as it's the Trek universe
Closing Date: 29th May and I'll start the voting on the 30th.
Any questions, shout out.
Letters from home, letters to a ship, official reports back to headquarters. It can be whatever you want - but it has to feature communication by mail (recorded video feed -or whatever they actually call it in Trek - is allowed
)I've gone through the winning entries and I don't see this anywhere - but I know there are some missing. So if this has been done before let me know and I'll give you plan B.
So, the details:
Challenge Title: Mail Call
Story length: 2,000
Allowable characters: Anyone / any time so long as it's the Trek universe
Closing Date: 29th May and I'll start the voting on the 30th.
Any questions, shout out.
So excited! And scared - be kind - heck no point that way - just be honestic [though constructive if possible!
