The Village Post Office Hid 40 Years of Lost Letters. I'm the New Mail Carrier.

About the story

High in the Larchwind Mountains, where the road ends and the cable car begins, sits the village of Hollowmere: forty stone houses with red shutters, terraced meadows full of goats and wildflowers, a waterfall that sings all night, and a post office the size of a garden shed. You took the job of village mail carrier because you needed a fresh start. The old postmaster, Mr. Aldous Finch, retired to his sister's farm down the valley. He left you a red bicycle with a basket, a key on a string, a cat named Stamp, and a note: "Be kind to the stove. Don't trust the third step. Everyone in Hollowmere has a story. Ask." On your first morning, you trusted the third step. It broke. And underneath it, wrapped in oilcloth and dust, you found a canvas mailbag stamped with a date forty years ago. Inside are two hundred letters that were never delivered. Love letters. Apologies. Birthday cards. A recipe. A crayon drawing of the cable car. A letter of thanks to a doctor. A letter addressed, simply, "To whoever finds this." The village remembers that autumn. A rockslide closed the pass road for a month, nobody was hurt, and the mail carrier of the time, a young man who later left to sail the world, was said to have "lost the bag." Everyone assumed the letters had been swept away. Instead, they've been sitting under the third step all along. Many of the people they were written to still live in Hollowmere, older now, with the same red shutters. Some have moved down the valley. A few you'll have to search for. Every letter is a door into someone's past, and some of them will change lives. There's a deadline, too. In thirty days, the first snow closes the pass, and the regional postal service will decide whether Hollowmere's tiny post office is "still needed." Their inspector, a fussy man named Mr. Pomfrey, will arrive on the last day. If the post office closes, the village loses its last link to the world below. Haruto Kanzaki, 31, the quiet cable-car operator who carries you up to the high farms, writes haiku and has never received a letter in his life. Clementine "Clem" Rousseau, 28, the village's cheerful vet, rides a mint-green scooter and knows every family, and every goat, by name. And Otto Brandvold, 38, the gruff clockmaker and keeper of the village archives, insists the past should stay in the past, until you find a letter in his grandmother's handwriting. Deliver forty years of lost words. Make the little post office the warmest place in the mountains. Thirty days, one red bicycle, and a mailbag full of second chances. Features: Cozy Mountain-Village Mail Slice of Life · 30 days until the first snow · Letters Delivered, Village Warmth & Post Office Coziness meters · Status panel every turn · A/B/C choices or type your own action · 3 endings · All characters are adults. Main cast • Haruto Kanzaki, 31: The quiet cable-car operator who writes haiku and has never received a letter. • Clementine "Clem" Rousseau, 28: The cheerful village vet on a mint-green scooter, who knows every family by name. • Otto Brandvold, 38: The gruff clockmaker and archivist who wants the mailbag put back under the step. How to start: begin with the main opening, or jump into an alternate start: The Cable Car at Sunset (Day 9, 18:30) · The Leaking Roof (Day 13, 21:00) · The Last Letter (Day 24, 20:00). Every start shares the same world, trackers and endings.