The Parlour · From the Desk
Fifty-three filings from the cane field, the farmhouse, the shopping mall and the apartment block, sorted by when the events claim to have happened rather than by when somebody got round to printing them — and carrying, over my objection, eighty years of documents in which the zombie is the injured party and 1968 is where the word changed sides.
By Casimir Vane
The Parlour
A reading list rather than an argument. Eight filings from the outbreak register that between them predict most of the other forty-five, and the secondary literature behind the first eighty years of it — where the popular sources are the ones to hold at arm's length.
By Constance Tally
The Parlour
A reading list rather than an argument. Eight filings from the register that between them predict most of the rest, and the secondary literature the register was built from — including the book it went to for the bedsheet and came back from empty-handed.
By Constance Tally
The Parlour
Eight rulings graded against the register: silver was invented for one picture and the man who invented it said so, the full moon is younger than the talkies, and the only rule that has held without a break since Rome is the one about the laundry.
By Casimir Vane
The Kitchen Desk
Stock is not a recipe. It is the refusal to throw out the parts of dinner that still have a job to do.
By R. Dunmore
Domestic Affairs
You cannot end the laundry. You can stop making decisions inside it: one wash class, one buffer quantity, one identical load, forever.
By Iris Petty
Domestic Affairs
The scald when someone flushes is not a quirk of old pipes. It is an unregulated pressure split, and it has a standard part number.
By M. Plumb
Diversions · Puzzle of the Day
A grid with no blocked squares at all. Every letter is checked in both directions, and the across and down answers are the same words, which halves the work.
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The Sections
What the household owns, cleans, stocks, repairs, and shares its premises with.
Food, cooking, and provisioning meals that continue tomorrow.
What the household reads and watches, listed rather than reviewed, and kept here all year: the registers, the tens and the family files.
The puzzles page, and the strip. Sincerely presented. Quietly impossible.
Notes on the edition, and notices from the paper.
