Foolhardiness

Okay, so there was good reason why English didn't have an epistolary past.  I didn't even find a classical piece in it that I could have posted.

But that was still not reason enough for me to not go ahead and try it anyway  :)

And since it was going to be epistolary, it had to be in the second person, which was an added plus as far as I was concerned  :)  Because that way, when the piece didn't work, there would be not one, but two reasons why it was a difficult task, i.e. two things I could blame for it  :)

And two things about decisions:

1.  Since I found no tradition for this in English, I got to choose a tense myself:  One of the true past tenses?  Or a present perfect, which, even though they were present tenses in English, referred to past time by virtue of their aspects?---For this first attempt, I decided to keep it simple, i.e. to try the simple past tense.

2.  Since this was going to be challenging for other reasons, I decided to return to my comfort zone of pure fiction.  I did have great fun writing the true stories I posted last week and on Tuesday, and I do hope write the truth again in the future!

64 words (at least it was short):
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While You Were Out

I got the mail.

And then I read the mail, so I smoked a cigarette.  Inside the house.

Then I packed my clothes, and called a cab, and wrote this note, then smoked again while I waited for the cab.

When the cab was here, I left the keys in the mailbox on my way out.  You should have gotten your own fucking mail.