19.01.2026
In response to:
https://mad-missy-work.blog/2026/01/19/missys-mad-challenge-076/#like-18007
response with #missysmadchallenge.
Your challenge for this week
A character receives a letter written in their own handwriting… from ten years in the future.
The envelope was unremarkable.
No stamp. No return address.
Just my name — written the way I always loop the g, the way my hand hesitates before the final letter.
Inside, the paper smelled faintly of dust and rain.
I know you won’t believe this at first, it began,
but check the scar on your wrist. I still have it too.
My breath caught.
I read on.
You’re standing at a crossroads right now. You think you chose wrong. You didn’t. The fear passes. The silence doesn’t last forever. Keep going — especially on the days you feel invisible.
At the bottom was a date.
Ten years from now.
And a signature I recognised better than my own reflection —
steady, older…
finally unafraid.
I folded the letter carefully, my hands no longer shaking.
For the first time in a long while,
the future felt like something waiting for me —
not something I had to survive.
💫Maggie
The Afterlove Voice 💫
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