Letters to the Lantern
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Letters to the Lantern

A grief-struck translator begins a correspondence across a century, and learns that some addresses survive their buildings.

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Iris addressed the first letter to a lighthouse that no longer existed because the grief counselor had run out of better ideas. Three weeks later it came back — not returned, but answered, in handwriting the colour of rust, signed by a keeper who had drowned in 1924. He wanted to know if the harbour was still cold.