The Letters in the Wind

Every autumn, the wind in Valehaven carried scraps of paper through the streets. No one knew where they came from. Some were love letters, others goodbyes, others pleas.

A schoolteacher named Alina began collecting them, piecing the fragments together into stories. The more she read, the more she noticed — the letters all mentioned her town, her students, even her own name.

One final letter blew in through her window. It read:

“When you finish reading this, look outside.”

She opened the door — and the air was filled with glowing paper swirling upward, vanishing into the clouds like birds taking flight.

The climax: The next morning, every doorstep in town had one letter waiting — written in Alina’s hand, signed: “From the wind, with love.”