The Parlour · The rulings
Seven rulings graded against the register: one refereed paper with a number in it, a founding document its own author withdrew in 1888, and a household finding that rests in part on a cartoon dog.
By Casimir Vane
Domestic Affairs
Linen bedding spans a twelvefold price range for one fiber. We priced the whole bed three ways, did the per-night arithmetic, and checked what the money actually buys.
By Hollis Carver
The Kitchen Desk
Water boils cooler as you climb, so the seven minutes that produced a hard egg at the trailhead produces a raw one at the summit. The pot is not the problem. The sky is.
By R. Dunmore
The Parlour
Sixty-three filings from a Roman letter, a London courtroom, a rapping in New York State and a Pixar permit office, sorted by when the events claim to have happened — a record in which the one party I cannot serve notice on turns out to keep better appointments than I do.
By Casimir Vane
The Parlour
Fifteen rulings graded against the register: the invitation holds and has failed twice, the stake works sometimes, and the most obeyed law of the lot was invented in 1922 by a print the courts ordered burned.
By Casimir Vane
The Parlour
Forty-nine filings sorted by when the events claim to have happened rather than by when somebody got round to printing them, concerning a creature whose dates are published a year in advance in every almanac — and a record in which, across two thousand years, exactly four households made a plan around them. I work nights. Every night. I have views.
By Casimir Vane
Domestic Affairs
Owning the right number of socks is not a personality. It is a buffer calculation, and it fits on one line.
By Iris Petty
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.
