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Scary Stories To Tell in the Clark: The Letter

  • Parker Debaryshe, Joshua Canning, LiLi Bourne
  • Oct 29, 2018
  • 2 min read

On the night before graduation, Jenny was out partying with her friends. After four very long years, she was finally ready to move out into the real world. She had a supportive boyfriend, awesome parents, and had landed a well-paying job at the Worcester Art Museum. Way to go, Jenny!

Anyway, Jenny’s life couldn’t be better, and she was enjoying drinking with a couple of her close friends. Halfway through the night, the group returned to Jenny’s apartment only to be greeted by a strange man dressed in black. When he noticed the group, the man dropped what seemed to be a black envelope and ran off into the night.

Jenny stopped and watched the man disappear as her friends trailed into the building.

Did they not see him? she thought to herself, turning to enter the door. When she was about to step inside, she noticed the letter at her feet. The envelope was made of some kind of ornate leather, with an intricate wax seal holding it closed. As Jenny reached for the pamphlet, she felt her heart pounding in her chest. Should I open it? As she moved her hand to the seal, a crash from inside distracted her and she dropped the envelope on the steps.

The night continued on, and as she and her friends had the time of their lives, Jenny completely forget about the strange encounter at the door. Late into the night, Jenny went into her kitchen to grab a drink from the fridge. As she walked in, she noticed the envelope from earlier was now resting on the countertop.

How did it get here? she wondered. As Jenny stared at the envelope, her friends came into the kitchen.

“What’s with the envelope?” one of her friends asked. After much discussion, Jenny’s friends dared her to open the letter. With nervous excitement, Jenny reached for the envelope, her hands shaking. Peeling off the wax, Jenny jumped the sudden loud pop the seal made as it broke. Carefully removing the worn parchment from the envelope, Jenny let out a scream of terror upon reading its contents. Jenny’s friends rushed to see the message, which had fallen to the floor. Printed on the letter were the words:

A hold has been placed on your account until your balance has been paid. You will not be able to walk at graduation until you submit your final payment.

-Clark University Registrar’s Office

 
 
 

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Hipster Quote of the Week:

" The message at the end of “The Tortoise and the Hare” isn’t that ‘slow and steady wins the race’, but actually a well-remembered quote from the 1977 Disney classic “A New Hope”: “Great kid! Don’t get cocky”. Bullshit that the hare was gonna lose that race if he didn’t choose to stop for a nap and a snack and whatever else he did. Bullshit that the tortoise was going to catch up in any capacity if the hare didn’t slow down for him. Maybe that platitude makes sense, but definitely not in this situation.

 

A race is a sheer contest of speed. No other skills go into that. The tortoise and the hare aren’t making miniature wooden horses and getting judged on the craftsmanship of their products alongside their finish time; they are moving from one point to another. In no universe does slow and steady win that race. Slow and steady wins no races, except for races where the point is to go as slow as possible. Even in cases where slow and steady could be considered a possible alternative to fast, such as the aforementioned miniature-wooden-horse-making competition, someone who can do similar quality work at a much faster pace still wins that competition.

 

Slow and steady does not win the race. Not being too full of yourself does.."

 

~Nick Gilfor

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