Dead Letter Office, Parish Mail #1

5 February 2015

Dead Letter Office, Parish Mail #1

Celia Jane together with her other family member were at her father funeral. Her father was a corpsman in the navy. One day, her father’s convey was attacked by explosive weapon and resulting her father to die at that moment. Then, her family moved into the New Orleans. When she was at the cemetery she felt so sad. So, she decided to walk for a moment around the cemetery alone. Suddenly, she felt someone stroke her hair. It was a very gentle movement, soft. She turned around expecting it would be either her mom or her other family member. Surprisingly, no one was there.

On one night, she found there was an unusual tree, with trunk pale as bone and wide, spade-shaped leaves a remarkable dark red. There was also the hallow looks sort of like a wooden mailbox hanging off the side of the tree. On Halloween, bizarre supernatural occurred at her. Celia met with a mysterious Luc and found a letter, over a hundred years old, addressed to her. After that Celia learnt that Luc was the restless spirit a young man murdered in 1854. She also found that the letter that addressed to her describe the suspect murder of a man 1870.

With help from Luc, Tilly and Donovan, Celia races to solve the murder and all the mystery of the letter by using both magical and forensic clues.

I would like to recommend this material because I found that this material is a little bit different from the other material that I read before. It is because the author of this story, Kira Snyder combined so many elements in her writing. For instance, she put the element of a family life, friendship, fantasy and even some paranormal element. I think that when all of these elements are being combined harmoniously this material will become a masterpiece. Besides, this material also will increase the imaginary skill of its reader. I as a reader of this material had already experience it. I started to imagine the image of the tree that has trunk pale as bone with the dark red spade-shape leaves. It is something absurd and impossible to be found in this world but it is not impossible to be existed in our mind. Thus, your brain will work creatively to create an appropriate image of something that you never seen before.

I had read one of the quotations from Albert Einstein before this; he stated that the true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. So, I believe that this material is very suitable to be read by the other people.