bandersnatch

the record · year ninety

field dispatches

the office publishes documents; it does not explain them. entries are filed as they occur. nothing is deleted.

the founding decade · 1935 – 1945 →

the flood mark was measured again. it had moved up the wall. the wall is dry. the mark is in the file.

the chapel bells rang at four in the morning. the chapel has no bells. see lot 002. filed.

damage, class .3300: a fence line at the county's east quarter was found opened from the inside. no prints were taken because no prints were found. the fence is in the file. the animal is not.

a porch light on delilah road burned all month with no house under it. see lot 005. the light is in the file.

the cardinal was counted at the county line. one. it is always one. see the bestiary, plate ii.

a canister of film was left on the counter overnight. no one was seen. it is marked vii. it has not been developed. see the succession.

a trap was found at the county line, new-set and unsprung. a blue canary sat over it and sang, and did not move off. the trap is in the file.

the trap was collected. nothing was caught in it, and nothing has been since. see the bestiary, plate iii. filed under: prayer.

standing notice

the office will publish what develops. those signed in the visitor ledger are written first — the estate writes rarely and never sells your name.

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