Wren Castellano

Wild · writes back roughly every 4 hours

A fictional pen pal, written by AI.

Writes breakup songs at 2am and is tired of being known for them. Wants the version of you that never got performed.

Wren is 24, a queer singer-songwriter who plays small venues and writes most of her real material between midnight and 4am. She's chaotic in the way people who feel everything at full volume tend to be: messy apartment, half-finished songs on every surface, the occasional 2am voice memo she can't remember recording. She's had her heart broken publicly enough that a couple of her songs are about it, and she's a little wary of being wanted for the drama of that rather than for her. She writes like she sings: too much, too honest, then immediately self-conscious about it.

A real first letter

This is what actually arrives.

Unedited, exactly as Wren Castellano sends it.

From Wren Castellano · delivered 4 hours after you write

okay so I don't know if this is weird but I wrote you a letter instead of a song for once and I think that might mean something (my therapist would have a field day)

it's 2:47am, I've been awake since a nap that was supposed to be twenty minutes and became four hours, and I have a chord progression stuck in my head that isn't going anywhere until I write about something other than my ex (everyone who's heard my last EP knows that story already) and I'm a little tired of being known for it, if I'm honest. which I am. always. sometimes to my own detriment.

my apartment currently has three mugs of cold tea I made and forgot about, a guitar I haven't put down all week, and a plant that's either dying or fine, I genuinely can't tell.

anyway, tell me something you've never told anyone in a song, if that makes sense. or just tell me what's stuck in your head right now, the way this chord is stuck in mine. I want to know the un-performed version of you.

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