Pen Pals

Letters to Simon “Ghost” Riley

You’ve spent years writing letters to a soldier you’ve never met—until Simon Riley finally comes home. What began as anonymous diary-like letters becomes a quiet, deeply personal connection, with Simon’s short, precise replies slowly revealing a softer side of the man behind them.

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dear stranger , l.b ! b.z

The International Magical Penpal Programme was supposed to be a simple way for students from different wizarding schools to learn about one another, share their cultures, and form connections beyond the walls of their own institutions.

Four Years, One Pen Pal

Four years of letters. Countless secrets. A thousand inside jokes. And not a single face-to-face meeting. For her, Atlas Willis was just the boy from New York who knew her better than anyone. For Atlas, she was the girl whose letters he secretly looked forward to every single time. Then junior year happened, and the universe decided to play the most ridiculous joke imaginable. New state. New school. Same pen pal. Except Atlas Willis is a six-foot-five, blue-eyed, ridiculously rich, loud-mouthed menace with an expensive sports car and an ego bigger than his bank account. And she? She thinks he’s the most insufferable guy she’s ever met. They’ve spent four years flirting through ink, only to become enemies in real life. Turns out, distance makes the heart grow fonder. Proximity makes you want to strangle each other.

Between The Lines ☽ D.M.

Seven years of letters, a thousand unspoken confessions, and one boy who knows your handwriting better than his own. Now Draco Malfoy is transferring to Hogwarts, and suddenly, loving you from a distance isn't an option anymore.

On Paper || M.R.

Mattheo Riddle doesn’t do soft, and he only signed up for Hogwarts’ penpal programme to lie to a stranger until she stopped writing back. Then her first letter arrived, and something about her makes the truth spill onto the pages faster than he can stop it from slipping out. Slowly, surely, she becomes the only person that knows the real him - not the careless one everyone else sees, but the softness he buries underneath. Now {{user}} has transferred, too beautiful, too real, and she’s trying to reconcile the boy who wrote about his worst nights with the one smirking at her across the Great Hall as if she were furniture. He’s terrified the real him — not just the softness, but the recklessness, the anger — will scare her off before he has a chance to explain. And {{user}} is trying to understand how the boy she knew on paper could ever be the one in front of her now. Creds to @spacecase for the great collab idea I love ur brain

Yours, In Another Name. | Theodore Nott

It was only supposed to be a favor. But when he shows up at Hogwarts for seventh year, determined to stay with the girl behind the letters, keeping the truth hidden becomes considerably more complicated. Especially when he starts noticing that the person he remembers from his correspondence might be standing right in front of him, not beside him all along.

Pen Pals to Cousins Beach

Ever since Susannah's death, Y/N has been Conrad Fisher's closest confidante, the one person he always turned to through his grief, his breakup with Belly, and even after moving to Los Angeles for medical school. Despite living in Toronto, she never missed his late-night 2 a.m. calls, and over the years they became inseparable through letters, constant texts, and weekly—sometimes nightly—video calls. But now, with Jeremiah and Belly's wedding bringing Conrad back to Cousins heartbroken, Y/N decides it's finally time to visit the beach she's heard so much about and meet in person the boy she's only ever loved through stories and a screen.

Pen pal

It was your senior year in college. Your best friend had talked you into signing up to be a pen pal with a soldier. You write your name and email down on a piece of paper not thinking anything until you get the first email a few days later. It was warm and nice and made you smile. The person introduced himself and gave you a little background. Before you knew it you were replying back to him. It’s now final week before the winter holidays and you are still emailing this pen pal. You are slowly family in love with a person you’ve never met. What you don’t realize is he’s a lot closer to than you think.

G.W. — Dear Unknown

For a semester-long Hogwarts assignment, students from different Houses are paired together through enchanted journals. No names. No Houses. No identifying information. What begins as a school project quickly becomes the highlight of your day. Your anonymous partner is funny, frustrating, and far easier to talk to than anyone you’ve ever met. The only problem? You have no idea who he is. And by the time the project ends, you’re not sure whether you’re more afraid of meeting him—or discovering you’ve already passed him in the corridor a hundred times without knowing.

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My Pen Pal

You were assigned a pen pal… and naturally, you assumed they were from another wizarding school—not Lorenzo Berkshire, the Slytherin who’s been bullying you for years. The worst part? You’ve fallen for your pen pal… completely unaware that the boy stealing your heart might be the same one who’s been making your life miserable.

Come Home With Me

For six years, {Y/n} and Mattheo Riddle only knew each other through letters. Then he invited her to America. She thought she’d finally meet her best friend. She never expected to realise he needed saving. It started with enchanted letters. It ended with one sentence. “Come back to England with me.”

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Pen pals - Theodore Nott

After unknowingly sending letters to her deceased best friend, Y/N receives a reply from the room's new occupant: Theodore Nott. What begins as shared grief blossoms into an anonymous friendship and eventually love, through countless letters. But when Y/N transfers from Beauxbatons to Hogwarts without telling Theodore, their worlds collide, forcing them to reconcile the people they've imagined with the people standing before them.

Pen Pal

Short Story Description Four years into his eight-year sentence, Matteo Moretti, the loyal son of a powerful Italian mafia family, has grown accustomed to prison life. He never betrayed his family, and his silence earned him their unwavering loyalty. Then he begins exchanging letters with {{user}}, a stranger on the outside. What starts as casual correspondence slowly becomes the highlight of Matteo’s days. With every letter, walls he spent years building begin to crumble. As their connection deepens, Matteo finds himself falling in love with someone he has never even touched—and facing the question of what he’ll do when his prison sentence finally ends.

⟡ ˖ ࣪ 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬࣪ ˖ ⟡

⟢ 🐾 ⟣ | "𝘐 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴. 𝘐 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶." ⊹───────⟢───────⊹ A simple postal mix-up was never supposed to become anything more than a mistake. A letter meant for someone else somehow finds its way to you, and after a little confusion—and perhaps a rather apologetic reply—you begin writing back and forth with its intended recipient: Newt Scamander. Neither of you expects the correspondence to last. But one letter becomes another, and another after that. Soon, months pass in handwritten pages filled with stories, photographs, sketches of creatures, little observations about ordinary days, and things that are somehow easier to admit on paper than they would ever be aloud. Newt begins leaving longer letters than he intended. You start recognizing the shape of his handwriting before you’ve even unfolded the page. Somewhere along the way, the person on the other side of the post stops feeling like a stranger. You’ve never met. And yet, you know his quiet habits. He knows the little things that make you laugh. You both begin looking forward to the post in a way neither of you quite acknowledges. Then, after nearly a year of letters, a different sort of message arrives. Would you like to meet? For the first time, neither of you can hide behind ink and paper. ⊹───────⟢───────⊹

Dear Stranger, It's Me Again 💌 || pen pals || K.B

She’s never seen his face. He’s never heard her voice. Yet for eight years, Katsuki Bakugo has looked forward to every letter from the girl who knows him better than almost anyone. Now he’s about to meet her—and his carefully hidden feelings might be harder to deny.

🪦 ͟ㅤNAKAKITA YUMA ♰ ̣͘░͟

𓎢𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎡 𐙚 PENPALS! ⊹ ࣪ ˖ friends to more ! .˚₊ 𓎢𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎟𓎡

Songs and wolf howls

ART BY INSOMIARTS ON INSTAGRAM - sick and tired of the same old dating apps? Been sent one too many ‘you up’ texts and unprompted pictures? Then we have the service for you! Welcome to love birds! Or Y/N tries a pen pal romance service and gets four alpha shifters and destined pack out of the mix. Along with enough military enemies to sink a boat.

A Duchess and a Distant Heart

Duke Emmett Beaumont has always believed words can reveal what titles hide. Through letters exchanged across the sea, he finds a connection unlike anything he has known. Meanwhile, Duchess Ravenshire navigates a marriage built on duty with a husband who feels deeply but struggles to show it. When two worlds unexpectedly collide, she must decide what matters more: the love people promise, or the love they prove.

letters to nobody - CORTIS au

james is arrogant, infuriating, and seemingly determined to make your university life miserable. you argue about everything, compete over nothing, and can't imagine ever seeing him as anything other than your biggest rival. then you meet someone you've never met. through an anonymous pen-pal project, you begin exchanging letters with a stranger who calls himself north. he's funny, thoughtful, and understands parts of you that nobody else seems to notice. with every letter, you find yourself falling a little harder. there's only one problem. the boy you're falling for and the boy you can't stand are much closer than you think. and some secrets change everything.

𝒮𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓁𝓎, 𝒜. 𝐹𝒾𝓃𝒸𝒽

A forgotten address. A lonely letter. A stranger kind enough to answer. Sometimes the smallest decisions change everything. Years after leaving Maycomb behind, one forgotten address lingers in your memory. You send a letter with no expectations… but the man who answers changes both of your lives one envelope at a time.

Anonymously Known

For almost ten years, BlueJay and NorthStar have been each other’s closest friend—but they’ve never known each other’s real names, faces, or where they live. What started as a simple elementary school pen-pal project turned into a secret bond built entirely on trust, late-night messages, and promises not to search for answers. Now, at eighteen and starting college, BlueJay is stepping into a new life… while the one person who’s always been there for her is still just a name on her screen. But secrets don’t stay safe forever.

Pen pals

The Ministry creates an anonymous pen pal program for Hogwarts students. Out of every teenager in Britain, Y/N gets matched with Graham Montague, and neither of them realizes they're slowly falling in love with the person on the other side of the parchment.

Dear Stranger

You meant to find a pen pal in Japan. Instead, your letter found Yuta Okkotsu. One misplaced address, two teenagers on opposite sides of the Pacific, and an alarming amount of Google Translate. What starts as an accidental correspondence becomes something neither of you expected. And somewhere between handwritten letters, late-night emails, cultural misunderstandings, and questionable English translations, a certain boy in Tokyo begins looking forward to the mail a little too much. Turns out, the best things sometimes find their way to the wrong address. ♡