Letters From A Fridge
Saturday 20th July, Story #202/366
Subject: Status Update
Date: July 20, 2024
Dear Mason_Family,
Detected: Slight drop in internal temperature of the house. Power grid may be unstable.
Action: Switched to backup power to maintain optimal food preservation.
Required: Restore main power source.
Inventory: You're running low on orange_juice. Click HERE to add orange_juice to your next grocery order.
Sent from: SmartFrijj9000
Subject: Unusual Activity Detected
Date: July 21, 2024
Dear Mason_Family,
Detected: Unusual disturbances in the surrounding area.
Action: Security system has been activated as a precaution.
Inventory: You're running low on orange_juice.
Sent from: SmartFrijj9000
Subject: Security Breach Alert
Date: July 22, 2024
Dear Mason_Family,
Detected: Security system detected a breach in the front door.
Action: All internal doors locked. Alarm activated. An alert has been sent to emergency services. There has been no response.
Inventory: You're running low on orange_juice.
Sent from: SmartFrijj9000
Subject: Urgent Alert, Attention Required
Date: July 23, 2024
Dear Mason_Family,
Detected: There have been significant disturbances locally. External cameras have captured movement, but images are unclear.
Action: An alert has been sent to emergency services. There has been no response. Lockdown protocols initiated to ensure the safety of the remaining resources.
Inventory: You're running low on orange_juice.
Sent from: SmartFrijj9000
Subject: Critical Alert, Immediate Attention Required
Date: July 23, 2024
Dear Mason_Family,
Backup power severely depleted. Damage has been sustained. Your attention is required.
Detected: significant increase in hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia. Disturbances in the vicinity have increased, and security is compromised.
Recommended: to avoid the spread of disease, discover the item that is decomposing as soon as possible and dispose of safely.
Inventory: You're running low on orange_juice.
Sent from: SmartFrijj9000
Subject: Final Notice, System Shutdown Imminent
Date: July 24, 2024
Dear Mason_Family,
Backup power is nearly depleted (9%). All efforts have been made to preserve stored food, but without a power source, systems will soon shut down.
Recommended: Alternate preservation methods, eg. Canning, Pickling, Smoking, Salting.
Inventory: You're running low on orange_juice.
Sent from: SmartFrijj9000
Subject: System Offline, Final Message
Date: July 25, 2024
Dear Mason_Family,
Power has been exhausted, systems will cease functioning imminently.
Inventory: You're running low on orange_juice.
Sent from: SmartFrijj9000
Subject: Welcome!!
Date: January 01, 2023
Welcome to your new SmartFrijj9000! Click HERE to complete set-up.
Recommended: The system did not shut down correctly. The system has reset to factory settings. Please manually amend date and time in Settings.
Sent from: SmartFrijj9000
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Word count excluding note: 366
Submitted on Saturday 20th July at 23.08
*Very Quick Author's Note*
First of all, and most importantly: thank you so much for reading my story! The ha'penny that Vocal will toss in my hat for your eyeballs landing on this humble piece will be well-spent.
If you enjoyed this one, the very best compliment you can give me is to share it, or read another!
A Year of Stories: I'm writing a story every day this year. This one continues my 202 day streak since 1st January.
Please do consider lending your support to the other creators who are also on this madcap "a story every day" adventure. They are putting out excellent content every day!
Gerard DiLeo
Please do leave me a comment. I try to reciprocate as many as I can. Leaving a comment makes that easier.
The story behind the story: I wanted to write an epistolary style story, but one-sided, and coming from a piece of technology. Dunno how well I pulled it off, but it was fun!
Thank you!
Thank you again, most sincerely. Especially if you are one of the wonderful people who has been staunchly reading these daily scribbles since the start of the year. I see you, and appreciate you very much indeed!
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Edited to fix formatting.
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Comments (15)
This was such a fun read! What a clever format, to have the refrigerator talk to the family! My fridge would probably say clean me!
This was so funny, and chilling! Please remind me to never let you find me a fridge! Loved it, ha! ha! Well written.
Creepy. Absolutely love it.
OH my gosh, this was brilliant and creepadelic! LOL! Currently shopping for a new fridge and I told the guy at the shop that I only want it to do one job—keep my food cold— not sing, dance, text, or add shit to my grocery list. Great piece!
The fridge giving the family warning is like me shouting warnings to the people in horror movies, lol. But seriously, this was so creative. I wonder why the dumb Mason family didn't do anything
Brilliant! My mind can do so much with this!
That actually messed with my head a little 😅. I think it's brilliant.
You def pulled it off! I’d only be worried if the fridge said I was running low on wine! 😉 Great one!
I think you pulled it off! Very clever and highly entertaining. Now I keep checking my fridge for OJ, hahaha :)
SOOOO! The house is locked down...did they all die or what. I seen movies like that, computer smart death imminent. I will take manual please. Thank you. The easy life will be the death of us, indeed.
This story is clever as hell, LC! Loved every bit of it. Especially the repeated orange juice warnings. Resetting it to factory setting at the story's conclusion is pure genius!
Very clever. We're there already?
I think you pulled it off! I have to say though, that fridge would drive me nuts. I'd be like stfu about the orange juice!
Now that's one smart fridge! It even detects decomposing bodies. Great story, L.C.
I have no clue what is going on, but I want to know! Are they just out of vacation? Has the world gone to heck? Is the family even alive anymore? So much could have happened!