Love Letters #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue presents romantic stories framed around love letters. The first story follows a woman recounting her past relationship with a man named Spence, revealing how she stole a skin food cream from him, their brief reconnection attempt that was rejected by the post office, and her discovery of his love letter hidden in a newspaper clipping about a ski lodge, leading her to pursue him across the country. A second story depicts a woman named Ellen at a company farewell party who reconnects with a man named John Carton, the company president, rekindling a romance that had faded after he was assigned to work in Central America, with the two agreeing to give their relationship another chance. The final visible story shows a woman recounting a chance encounter with a stranger at a barn dance, where they shared a magical moment before he mysteriously disappeared, only to have him suddenly reappear in her life asking for a second chance.
Sandra Jorge has achieved what seems like a dream—until a letter from her past arrives and shatters her present. Years ago, she and Spence Forbes parted ways over his commitment to scientific research instead of wealth and status, and now his desperate words threaten everything she's built. With her current fiancé Rod Brack demanding marriage and Spence's cryptic message weighing on her heart, Sandra must confront the choice between the life she's secured and the love she never stopped feeling.
When Jen Slater meets the charming Bret Lawson at a college prom, she's immediately smitten—his wit and affection sweep her off her feet, and soon his love letters arrive from town after town, full of warmth and promises. But when she rushes home to share the news of his proposal with her family, her father and sister's shocked reactions suggest that Bret Lawson isn't quite the man she believes him to be. "Love Swindle" explores what happens when a young woman's romantic certainty collides with a dark secret from her family's past.
A young woman named Diane receives passionate love letters from Jim Bayles, an engineer stationed in Central America, until one devastating message ends everything—claiming it was all a mistake. Desperate to understand what went wrong, Diane retraces the beginning of their romance at a company farewell party, where she uncovers a humbling truth about Jim's initial interest in her that will force her to reckon with what their connection really meant.
When a charming stranger named Cal Cowan sweeps into Hazel Ferris's dreary mill-town life one magical night, she believes she's finally found her escape from years of monotony and longing. But her newfound happiness shatters the next day when she learns Cal's true identity, and she's left to grapple with her impossible feelings for a man now caged behind prison walls. A tender letter arrives to rekindle hope in her darkest hours, testing whether love can survive the weight of such a devastating truth.
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Reprinted in Love Letters #1 (1950)
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