Dear Editor - My car is always breaking down in the most inconvenient of ways. I paid someone $500 to “fix” it and yet all the same problems persist. Know any good mechanics that won’t steal my money, and will actually fix my car?
Dear Editor -I find myself searching, frequently, for red flags. In the people around me, whether our budding relationship is based on friendship or romance. I am searching for someone to deliver me a red flag that is the same hue as my own. You see, it has become easy to believe that God forgot to hand out the pair for my own.
Dear Editor -Lost connection, I am looking for a young man named Timothy. He went by Timmy when I knew him on the playground in kindergarten. I have one memory with him, under the jungle gym. But in that memory, I can tell that he was a big part of my little-kid world, and I am hoping he can fill in the holes in my memory. I need to know if he remembers me, and if he does what does he remember? I don’t know his family name, or anything about him, except that when I knew him he was a little blue-eyed blonde and he was the sweetest boy in my grade.
Dear Editor -I am writing in hopes that any of your readers know anything about my lost dream. I remember having it as a kid. I was in the suburbs outside of Phoenix, AZ, playing in a box that I imagined to be an airplane. I also remember holding it in middle school; at that time it felt like a pen that fit perfectly between my curled fingers. It often shape-shifts, so I can’t be certain what it looks like now. But I'd really appreciate the opportunity to hold it again.
Dear Editor -Well, the thing is that winter is coming and I will likely need someone to help me shovel the snow from my porch. I would happily make hot cocoa and play Christmas music for the one who volunteers to help me hang a few festive lights. This is why I am writing to ask if anyone has a grandkid I could borrow. I will spoil them as if they were my own.
Dear Editor- I am listening for some good news, not just good news, but some good breaking news - headline worthy news. The news has been breaking my heart. I heard that people are protesting in Hong Kong and there was another shooting at a school this week. Children, they were children.
Dear Editor -I am looking for loose change. Under the couch cushions, in every catch all in the house, turned over and spread out, searching for coins in the mess. Coins to trade for an ice cream or two from the musical truck.
Dear Editor - I am looking for something to lose. It has been great for a while screwing around and getting fucked up all around town. But the confidence created by having nothing (to lose) is amazing (for a while). While you make yourself believe that is so. But in all honesty, I just want to have something worth losing (something that would care if I was lost too).
Dear Editor -I have recently heard the news that I will be a Great Aunt by June of next year. This news has sent me into a frenzy of excitement as I prepare for the new little life that will be entering into the world as my GREAT niece or nephew. With this new stage of life careening over the horizon, I am searching for someone to teach me how to be a “real” adult, please and thank you.
Dear Editor - I am searching for new words in an order that is unused. I am searching for a way to say things in a new fire - in a new brimstone - in a way that cracks heads open and sends them swirling like the dust of a star. I know it’s a tall order and I know that no one will know the answer to this issue - but I'm sure someone will know what I am saying - I’m sure they have already thought the same.
Dear Editor- I am holding my breath that anyone has seen a black and white dog, with one brown ear. He answers to Sammy and has been lost for over 24 hours. My son gets home from camping today and I can’t tell him Sammy is gone, please, anything helps.
Dear Editor -I am looking for recommendations on what path(s) I should take. I am new in town and have been having trouble finding one aligned with my standards. For one, I don’t want a hike, I have never been fond of the word. I am more looking for a path that has an incline, one where I am always rising upwards. But also, it would be rather nice if things could level out sometimes, so that I can have a break as well. If there are lower points in the path I would like them to be reasonable - not too long that is. I mean who wants to find themselves plateauing for an unreasonable amount of time? Not me. I want it to be shaded, but I want to have a clear view of the sun shine. I wouldn’t mind walking in the rain for a stretch, as long as the rain won’t leave my clothes sopping or the path muddied. I hope your readers have many nice suggestions, I am rather excited to start on this path as soon as someone presents me with the right one.
Dear Editor- I just moved into my first home with my wife. We have a formal dining room now, something that I wasn’t sure I’d ever have. I doubt we will eat in there much more besides dinner parties and holidays. So I need a very nice, sturdy table, contemporary and hand built or antique, something that has lasted through the decades. Names of carpenters, and or furniture shops are appreciated.
Dear Editor- I’m looking for a prom dress for my daughter. It has to be like new. She is in the running from prom queen and will, if all goes well, be on stage by the end of the night. As modern as possible, I suggested she wear mine and she said she’d be “laughed off the stage”. She is not a brat, I swear, she just wants everything to be perfect.
Karla Habbershaw is an Arizona native who graduated in May of 2020 from NAU Majoring in English, with an in Emphasis in Creative Writing and a Minor in Communication Studies. She was also the Managing Editor for this literary magazine with a special focus on tech and platform.
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