Later, when rafting with Josh one day, he hears the sound of pictures being taken and a drawing of him (standing next to the penpal, with his initials) is left on a tree for the narrator to find afterwards.Ī few weeks later, an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s in the neighborhood who was kind to the boy and Josh, Mrs. In the weeks that follow, the narrator receives an old dollar note when selling snow cones with Josh, the same one he’d sent to the Penpal ages ago. On realizing all of the photos feature him and his mother, he calls the police. Most of the children receive a letter back, but the narrator does not until the very end of the year when Polaroid photos are mailed to him. One day, their class conducts a penpal experiment, in which the children tie a letter to a balloon and send it off.
Penpal is told via a series of non-linear recollections by an anonymous narrator trying to make sense of mysterious events that happened to him during his childhood, the truth of which was kept from him by his mother all his life.Īs a boy in kindergarten, the narrator becomes best friends with another student named Josh. Sammy Raynor narrated all six installments, with Wendy Stolyarov appearing as a guest narrator in "Screens". Two months later, the latter three parts were complied and released as another bonus episode, "Penpal II". "Footsteps" was later complied with these two parts and released as a separate bonus episode, titled "Penpal I". The third part, "Boxes", appeared as a sequel in S1E11. The second part, "Balloons" first appeared as a standalone story in S1E10. It was presented four times over the first season of the Nolseep Podcast. The series is split into six parts: "Footsteps", "Balloons", "Boxes", "Maps", "Screens", and "Friends". In it, a boy is stalked for over a decade by a strange man. "The Winter Fire" ("Penpal II") "Penpal" is a series of stories that form one large narrative that was written by Dathan Auerbach.
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