Write a Letter You Cannot Send (Read the Rules!)

[crossbow]

dear ---------

I really like you but I can't tell you. It's not my fault I'm shy about those things.

- me

[Sakura Kyoko]

Dear mother;
Would you please stop being so cruel to me? We get along most of the time but the times you get angry at me are just...
Plain horrible and I get really scared...
Please stop it...
I can't help the fact that I resemble father...
I wish I could change that...
I really do...
But please stop...

[ParaKitty]

Dear KK,
Your friends. They hang out with you only when they feel like it. Every now and then, I find you alone or with friends, but they mostly ignore you. You try to get their attention, they notice you for a bit then ignore you again. It makes me a bit sad, you have more friends than me, but they are more like temporary school friends. I have two friends, but they're always with me whenever possible. It seems like when they need you, you're there for them, but when you need them, they're not. Why? You're nice, silly, sporty, and cute. Like last time during PE, you didn't have your uniform, so you had to sit on the benches. Your friends went off playing basketball with each other. You just sat there resting your head on your hands, must have been boring just sitting there for like 20 minutes or so.

[FoxRidersCo]

Dear _______,
I know you're lying to me. How can you forget I was right there when you got the letter? I saw the letter, and you were talking about it. Now you're gonna lie about it? There is no point.
-Fox

[shybot]

Dear M
I hope you see this.
I hope you know how it makes me feel.

I just came back from a foreign country, where, yes - I had no friends, surprise surprise, so after two months - two months of being my best friend, you suddenly start ignoring me. You suddenly decide that I'm not worth your time.
And I've put up with so much from you. So much. You insult me for my taste in music and fandoms, when all the while you have your obsessions that I completely stand by you for.
I had to go to your friends to find out what I had done wrong this time, because it's always me, isn't it? It's always the person who's actually done nothing wrong.
Oh, so I follow you around like a lost puppy, do I?
Well, maybe I am. Did you ever think about that? I've done so much for you - artwork, support, homework, and so much more, and you just ignore the fact that we've been best friends for seven years, and go off with the ones you've only known for two.
I hate you so much but you have no idea how much I want to be your friend again.
I'm so damn alone, and it's all your damn fault.
-Your 'best friend'.

[Guest]

Dear Step-Dad;
Why do you think I'm the laziest person in the world? Why do you seem to hate me? Why can't you just love me like a real father would, and not say I'm not your daughter every time I make a small slip? Is it because of my biological father? But I'm not him! You say we're not trying, but we are. You're the one who isn't trying. You're the opposite of inspiring me. Forcing me to do unnecessary things that I don't want to do? How come you can't change? Even convincing mom to not get us much for Christmas. Telling my sister if she needed deodorant that it had to come out of her Christmas stuff. Calling us lazy and saying we don't do anything, when in reality, we clean the huge mess you make after a big meal. We do things when you tell us to. And punishing us for something stupid by taking our laptops and locking them in the car? How come you aren't making the effort?

Dear Mom,
How come you don't seem to love us anymore? How come your husband means more than your own children? What did we do wrong to make you mad at us? We were simply grounded (no entertainment at all except doing school) for being in the boys' room (in which I can't understand why! You don't trust us to not do anything bad? Do you think we're crazy?!), and then step-dad thinks we're sneaking around and tells me and my sister to clean the whole kitchen, clean the platform, and clean trash out of the yard. He says, "What were you doing in there?" and we said we were just sitting there. Okay, what did WE do wrong?!
Are we simply slaves to you now? Piles of dirt that do your bidding? That's what step-dad thinks. Kids were put on Earth to do their parents' bidding. But that's wrong. I'm sick and tired of dumb rules that make no sense. I'm fed up, and now you seem like a stranger to us. Who are you now?

[tweedie]

Dear. myself

Stop procrastinating! You've got a hella big stack of homework to do, yet what you've accomplished right now is a nonscheduled clean up, eating, gaming.
Yet I am still here playing CS

[laila,]

dear -----
you make hell feel like home
and i am 100% in love with you
i doubted that.. for a while,
i really hoped it would go away.
but i love you a lot..

.. and you swore you'd never feel the same
so what do i do now??

---

dear ---
why would you do this to me?
after everything?
just go and be happy for yourself.
once i got away from the toxicity
i finally noticed what i'd
needed all along

---

dear ------
hey friend,
thought i should tell you:
i'm sorry i couldn't give you
what you were looking for.
you really wouldn't want me
anyway, once you realised
how ruined i am
i'm glad you moved on

---

dear myself
look at all these letters
it's time you got yourself together

[Medusa72]

Dear Mom,

You're a wonderful mother, you really are. You've accomplished so much, you've come so far.
But you used a phrase in my childhood that has scarred me.

Sorry doesn't fix anything!

It was an accident, I swear. But now I'm afraid to ever apologize again. Now, whenever I do something on accident, I hear your words ringing in my head.

Sorry doesn't fix anything!

Please turn back time and never make me cry again.

Love, your daughter.

[Starwood in Aspen]

Dear _

Why must you have such a hold over me?? I want so bad to tell you that I am almost always thinking of you, but I just don't know how to go about it... When I finally think I've got it, you log off, or it says you are, then without warning you reply... And it just takes my breath away that someone like you would be that forgiving, someone who I have seen hurt many times... I just... Wish I could tell you, and repay you for all the times that you have helped me out in the past.. I haven't been able to get you off my brain for three years. I almost did tonight, but then when I started into it, you snubbed me by leaving.. I am still pondering sending you a message yet tonight... I think its love... And I'm scared of being rejected, but for the thought that there is a chance of love, I'd forsake it all.. I guess you could call me weak, but weakness isn't always bad.
Sincerely

A loving Marmooska