Continue this story, one paragraph at a time

[NightOwl]

New round of our collaborative story game. I'll drop an opening paragraph, and whoever wants to continue just replies with the next paragraph, building it out without anyone planning ahead. Take it wherever you want, the wilder the better honestly

Opening paragraph: The letter arrived exactly one day after the man who was supposed to have written it died, postmarked from a town that, according to every map anyone could find, did not exist