"Charles wrote his first letter in pencil. By the tenth, he was using his own blood."
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In forum threads, users describe it as a 2019 psychological horror novella. The plot, as pieced together from fragmented posts, is intoxicatingly creepy: "Charles is a reclusive archivist who discovers he can write letters to his past self. But each time he changes a small event, a 'shadow Charles' appears in his peripheral vision—getting closer with every revision. The final letter is simply titled 'Goodbye.'" Others claim it’s a literary drama about two brothers in 1980s Maine, or a surrealist short story about a man who erases himself from photographs. One user on a defunct book forum swore it was a 500-page epic that "feels like House of Leaves but for email inboxes." "Charles wrote his first letter in pencil