Years ago, I knew a mentally handicapped fellow that would walk by my home almost daily. One day I went for the mail and found this lying on my driveway. I was moved with sadness for him because I knew he wanted to share his frustration with someone… but who could understand or do anything … Continued
My boyfriend works in a supermarket and keeps finding these notes tucked in the shelves.
I found four papers stuffed into the back of the seat in front of me in the auditorium. Pierce clearly wasn’t having a good day as the papers included a brochure, a school schedule, a failing report card, and this. I hope he returned Touching the Void.
While walking with a friend who was having a particularly bad day, we found this in a parking lot between a high school and a strip club. It made her feel a bit better to see that some people had it worse than she did.
I found this next to my neighbor’s mailbox.
I found this near the scanner in my school newspaper’s room. I don’t know what context it’s in, but I love the misspellings, all those ellipses, and the random trace of someone’s hand.
I work at a record store. This fell out of a used CD.
This letter was found inside the cover of “Final Exit,” the how-to suicide book, in a bookstore in the Czech Republic. It’s from a carbon copy and while the date was cut off, it says it’s from Czechoslovakia, so it must be pre-1993. I didn’t buy the book.
I found this on the floor of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library’s women’s bathroom, the one near the Mark Twain Room with the peach walls.