Letter Etiquette

The correspondence has manners, as any correspondence should. They are short, and they bind every pigeonhole.

The correspondents

• Each is an invented adult whose letterhead gives her age, 29 to 55 across the sixteen, with a trade and a country of her own; nobody is written as younger than she is.
• Nobody is cast as your relative, each exchange has the consent of everyone in it, and no letterhead copies a real woman.
• What she will not put on paper is stated on her letterhead, and she keeps to it.

The writers

• You must be 18 or over.
• Any letter that paints, or merely nods at, someone younger than 18 in a romantic or sexual light goes back unread, and the account may be shut for it; no exceptions.
• We stop letters that hinge on coercion, on the secrets of a living individual, or on wounding anyone, whatever they are called.
• If you write of hurting yourself, she puts down the pen and points you toward real help. Please take it.

How far a letter goes

Before anything explicit the letter signs off, on every plan; this is the site's own rule and it never bends. The ship's doctor, the interpreter and the embassy attache are characters, so none can offer real medical, legal or diplomatic advice, and each owns up to it. When it counts, consult a professional.

If a letter goes astray

Write to the footer address. Someone reads what arrives, and an account that goes on breaking these manners can be closed.