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Letters to Heaven: Remove My Sin

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    This letter is written on cheap typing paper, and was obviously written on an old-fashioned manual typewriter. The paper is stained by several blotches of water - tears, perhaps? It is in a brown envelope with a return address and seven stamps.

    Dear Temple People,

    Hello. How are you? My name is Lance Wilkinson, and I am 13 years old. I have a problem. I cant go to anyone else with it because it is such a horrible sin. My teacher (who is letting me borrow her typerwriter to write this letter) said that ancient people used to go to you to solve their biggest problems, and even Heartspeaker Chanson is always going on aboutthe wisdom of the ancients.,

    This last summer a boy came into moved to our town. There was a story on the news about it because his family was the first of his race to move to Saultsburg after the government forced us to integrate. A lot of people were upset about it. Mauybe you saw it on the news? Anyway my daddy didn't raise me to be no bigot so I tried to make friends with him even though Charlie Stapp said he would give me one of his animal diseases that they all carry. I don't believe that, Charlie is no better than his dad my mom says. And the new boy whose name is Solomon was really cool and smart and funny and he was better at telling jokes than anyone I know. We got to be friends and even thogugh my old friends grumbled he got integrated real good in the neighborhood.

    But then school started and we had to take showers after jim gym class with all the other boys. And I started having horrible sinful dreams about Solomon. I asked Heartsmith Jenn if you could be damned for dreams in Testimony and he said yes! So I started to do extra penance every day and when people asked me about it I just told them I was wanted to be extra pure for Mannas. But then last week in the showers I accidently looked at Sol in the showers and just looked and looked because his body is so perfect like one of them naked statues in the history books and Sol must of seen me because he smiled at me and I felt that weird sinfulness downt here and I lost my crap I guess because I punched Sol and I called him a horrible slur word I once heard mister Stapp use and then I ran out and pulled on my jeans and ran home.

    Well the Principal called about that and my dad and mom raised something fierce abouut how they raised me better than that and why I would do such an waful thing and I could not tell them because sin is sin and even the parent may not spare the child the fires of hell. Now I am grounded and my dad thinks I am on drugs ( I AM NOT!) and Solomon won't talk to me and I think I am going to throw myself into the Pyre of Absolution when the Inquisitors come for the Mannas ceremony next week. If you can please cast out whatever awful demon is making me evil and if you can';t do that please protect Sol after I have burned up and gone to hell because I think that Charluie has it in for Solomon even if he is all smiles when we play baseball together.

    Yours Truly,

    Lance Wilkinson
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    Wow. Intense! Maybe too intense for Do? Fortunately, that's Daniel's call, not mine.
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    Yeah, perhaps a little too intense, but this is such the definition of a Little/Heavy conflict for me that I had to get it written down.
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    Well, considering that there are a handful of letters folks have submitted that are kind of intense for a younger audience, the draft I'm writing does have a category of story set aside for those groups who want to engage in some more challenging subjects. Those would be earth-style stories:

    Rain – Water-style stories with small scope and heavy mood: A single drop of water, like a tear drop, can wreak as much personal havoc as a flood. Rain stories are private dramas with a more serious tone. Some media you can reference include My So-Called Life, featuring young people whose lives are interwoven through serious real-world issues like child abuse, homosexuality, prejudice, addiction, homelessness, adultery, and school violence.


    There won't be a lot letters in the book that fit this style primarily because not many people have written them. These feel more like letters that parents or counselors might use to engage their kids on some real-world subjects that might be difficult to deal with straight-on.
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    Wow, freaken depressing. Personally I think any teen should be able to handle it just fine though, it'd probably be good for them. :)
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    Yeah, I imagine these are the sort of game sessions that an older sibling or parent might play with a younger player, to bring up difficult subjects in a safe space.

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