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Dreamersistan wrote:

He makes his visits to the houses in this rural area. He has one letter left. It's addressed to the house most dilapidated in the entire area. He grimaces and trudges up to it. He hears sounds from inside the home. It's old music. He knows what's making he sound. He used to be a sound engineer at a music studio. It's a victrola. He knocks.

An old voice asks him to enter. He does. A young, short woman in a shawl is swinging on an ancient rocking chair. She's pretty in an old school way.

He says hello, and introduces himself as the new postman.

She asks where the old one is. He tells her that the gentleman has away from old age. She laments for him.

The girl asks why he has such a sour expression on his face. He wants to deliver the letter and leave, but she insisnts. He opens up to her about the loss of his job and prospects, and taking this job out of extreme need. A temp job offered to non-govt civilians. He thinks the post office will die soon.

She talks to him about life and the importance of moments. She is younger than him, but very wise. She makes him realize how futile hating the moment is. He leaves a little bit happier.

Every time he visits, he learns more from her. And she tells him to give her information about the world, and how things happen. He asks why she doesn't leave or get with the times. She says she was sworn to keep her ancestral ways, and she's a severe introvert. Agoraphic. He continues to discuss life with her, and begins to appreciate his job more. Smiling. Becoming a true postman, in love with his job. He falls in love with her.

He arrives one day out of the. He has a letter in which he's expressed his love for her. He realizes the road is being developed. The postman has arrived with a friend. He seems annoyed and isn't talking to the new guy. He decides to visit the house anyway, avoiding the crowd. An elderly man from the village stops him. He says he wants to visit the lady, but the man tell him she's gone. He asks where. The elderly gentleman tells her, the woman passed away in the 1940s. Long ago. She left because of the construction, and the fact the place is too crowded.

He says, it's not possible. He's met her a bunch of times. The man shows him why the place has no road.. the road and house were bombed during WW2. The house survived but the girl living in there didn't. The old gentleman asks him to steady himself, as the postman is shaken.

The postman leaves the letter in the basket. He throws himself into the construction spot and dies. People yell and they stop the construction machines

A decade later, a different postman passes by the area. He sees the house and the broken road. The incomplete construction. He passes by the house and hears the Victrola. Two people are dancing inside, one wearing an old postman-like uniform.

Dreamersistan wrote:

<kills and sells u on the blacc market>