Seventy-two letters continues to be one of my absolute favorite shorts. I think that it could also make a fantastic novel. There are so many little details which are only touched on for a moment and which I think deserve whole chapters of exploration. But maybe that's just because they push very specific buttons in my brain.

@[email protected] I'd definitely endorse that. I didn't get much out of rereading Exhalation, and there are some tales in this collection which just don't mean much to me. But the ones I remember with feeling still have it. I am personally tempted to write Seventy-Two Letters fanfiction.