an absurdist novelette

Anyone's
Letters

Stefan van de Graaff

16 death notes delivered.
16 promises kept.
Then came 17.

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Someone's been
delivering letters
in San Francisco.

Death notes. Each one promising the recipient's demise at a precise date and time, punishment for misdeeds only the creator knows. Signed simply: N.A.

Over the last three years, sixteen letters have been delivered, sixteen bodies have been found. But when Rupert Groenveld, the recipient of the seventeenth letter, picked up the envelope from the ground at his front door, something absurd happened.

A meditation on fate and humankind's desperate search for survival in a taunting universe.

Anyone's Letters

Anyone's Letters — The Jung School, 2026

Rupert Groenveld almost didn't die. Well, not when he did. Of course he was going to die some day. It was just unlikely to occur when it did. That is 3:13 AM, May the 12th.

It's a grim start, his end, I know. But trust me that though you will be tempted to believe this is a murder story — for many years I thought the same — it will become quite clear to you that the butchering of Rupert Groenveld was the simple, insignificant consequence of a story far more absurd.

— Anyone's Letters, Chapter I

Anyone's Letters

A 25 page novelette that you'll read in 30 minutes, but think about for weeks.

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Stefan van de Graaff

Stefan van de Graaff

Founder, The Jung School

Stefan van de Graaff is a writer, director, and digital strategist based in London. He is the founder of The Jung School, a coalition of artists focused on non-conformative art. His films include Simmer (HBO Max, 2020) and One of Us, starring Kit Connor. Prior to working in film, he co-founded Chamber Media, a digital advertising agency acquired in 2021. This is his first piece of literary fiction.

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