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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, …

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 …

I knocked doors for an independent redistricting commission. I wrote a explainer about it that got passed around. When it passed I was genuinely happy, and then I spent two cycles looking at the ma…

Permitted wetland losses in this state are recorded in one system, by permit number, with an acreage. Compensatory wetlands — the ones created or restored to offset those losses — are recorded in a…

Between the bus stop and the school, a distance of maybe six hundred metres, there are now four shops selling more or less the same things: biscuits, noodles, soap, cooking oil, phone credit, sweet…

The invitation to a friend's fortieth had a schedule on it. Not a start time — a schedule. Arrival and drinks, six to seven. A thing involving a quiz, seven to eight. Food, eight. Speeches, nine. I…

The letter came addressed to the plant manager and it was two paragraphs. As of a date about fourteen months out, the controller in that machine would reach end of support: no security updates, no …

The paper that came back with him was one page in two languages, issued by a hospital in a Gulf city, and under cause of death it said cardiac arrest. He was twenty-six. He had passed a medical exa…

In 1961 a family in the town below ours gave my grandmother a room behind their shop and did not charge her for it for two years. The father of that family is dead. His son runs the shop. My mother…

We are not always roses, or sunsets painted gold; sometimes we are two tired souls arguing over something old. You steal the blanket, I steal the last bite, we disagree about everything then laugh before the night. Love is not