We had just finished reading "Bartleby the Scrivener," and we were trying to pick essay topics.

"Bartleby used to work in the Dead #Letter Office," mused Payton. "A Dead Letter Office presumes a Living Letter Office--"

"I think ordinary letters are living letters, right? Because they--"

But Payton wasn't having any of my mundane, practical comments.

"--and more importantly, an Undead Letter Office," he continued. "That's what I'm going to write my essay about."

#wss366 #microfiction