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A Story Post: THE FIRST OF THE IMPOSSIBLE LETTERS

A little over a year ago I started receiving these letters.  They'd be slipped underneath my apartment door when I wasn't looking.  Sometimes I was home when it happened, sometimes I wasn't.  It was beyond unnerving either way, but finding this thick parchment envelope with nothing but my name on it on the floor next to the door after I'd been home for hours...I can't describe to you how creepy it was.  And something about all the references to God and stuff rattled me - even though I'm a Christian and grew up a pastors' kid...  Maybe because they topped it off by signing every letter "Fire."  Other than some sort of pyro-serial-killer, what kind of person calls themselves "Fire?"  I tried to get the police involved at first, but all the officer said was that, since no one was actually breaking into my apartment and there was nothing threatening in the letters, there was nothing they could do.  I could barely afford rent, so I figured a