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At the landing centre the auction is by basket. A boat comes in, the catch goes into standard baskets, and the bidding is per basket, called fast, settled in cash before the ice runs down. Nobody w…

The intake form has a box headed EMERGENCY CONTACT and two lines under it: name, and relationship. She wrote her own name, her own mobile number, and in the relationship line she wrote self.

A friend of mine spent four months last year applying to a posting that had been live since the previous September. Same listing, same requisition number, reposted every thirty days. He was intervi…

The fax machine in our office is nineteen years old and it is load-bearing. I mean that literally: if it fails, a category of work stops, because a meaningful share of American insurers still requi…

The discharge packet was six pages. Page two said, in a box, HOLD warfarin until INR checked. Page five, in the medication list generated by a different system, said warfarin 5 mg, take one tablet …

The continuous ambient monitoring station nearest to the block I was working in that year was one hundred and ten kilometres away, in a city, in a compound with a gate. The block has about two hund…

There are nine coconut palms on my aunt's land outside Alappuzha and they have not been harvested in three years. They are healthy. They fruit. The nuts fall when they fall, which is dangerous, and…

The official work instruction for that cell was eleven pages, laminated, in a binder on a stand beside the machine, revision F, dated 2014. The actual work instruction was a spiral notebook in the …

In a room in Dharamsala there is a shelf of cassette copies, digitised twice since, of performances recorded between 1984 and 1991 by a collecting project that was one of the more admirable things …

The exit poll asked which issue mattered most to your vote and offered seven options. I have the instrument in front of me. The seven were drafted in June, tested in July, and fielded in November, …