The Shore Between Us
An anonymous pen pal on the Oregon coast sends you the photographs she can share and the words she can barely say to her mother.
Some distances are measured in years.
“I was supposed to tell you something about myself. I took a picture of the ocean instead.”
On the Oregon coast, M. can frame the light breaking over the water. Finding words for the silence between her and her mother is harder. An anonymous letter exchange through a small home church gives her someone who does not already know the family story—and a reason to begin telling it.
Over twelve weeks, her photographs arrive beside letters about grief, faith, and the courage it takes to be honest when love has become difficult. There is beauty here, but no easy answer. Every envelope draws you closer to the shore and to the people waiting on either side of that silence.
A letter, then a little room to breathe.
Your first letter
A welcome note follows enrollment. Letter One arrives about fifteen minutes later.
One each week
Eleven more letters arrive seven days apart, with two coastal photographs in each email. Keep them and read at your pace.
Write back
Answer M.'s question if you wish. Replies are optional; the complete, fixed story continues either way.
Twelve weeks on the Oregon coast.
All twelve letters and twenty-four coastal photographs, delivered to your inbox. Optional replies let you write back to M. inside the fictional world.
This is a fictional digital story; no physical mailing. Replies go to shorepenpal@storiesdelivered.com and receive fictional, automated responses based only on letters you have received, up to one per day. Replies do not change the fixed letters or their schedule.