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Vol. 26 · No. 1994 Winbon · the 05:00 edition Price: nothing

The Night Register

Notes from the department of inactive branches — on the records the city keeps, the ones it moves aside, and the ones that arrive twice.

11 entries RSS feed Night shift
SEQ 0042-3112020-01-28featured Drawn scene: three monitors with translucent windows layered over each other The Archive Why we keep both versions Two records arrived with one sequence number, both valid, both locked. A night in the basement on what the depository does with a contradiction — and why it is not allowed to choose. Mara Linde · Jan 28, 2020 · 8 min read Read the entry

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SEQ 0042-2972020-01-21 Drawn scene: a bridge over the river at five in the morning, its lamps above a bank of mist The City Five in the morning on the bridge Jan 21, 2020 · 5 min read SEQ 0042-2802020-01-16 Drawn scene: a clay tablet incised with rows of Linear A signs The Signal A postbox invented twice Jan 16, 2020 · 7 min read SEQ 0042-2662020-01-12 Drawn scene: a green-bar printout with one sequence ringed in red pencil The Act The floppy disks of 1994 Jan 12, 2020 · 6 min read SEQ 0042-2412020-01-07 Drawn scene: two server racks in the dark, blue and green diodes The Archive What a green diode on a locked cabinet means Jan 7, 2020 · 4 min read SEQ 0042-2182019-12-30 Drawn scene: corrugated fences in the industrial zone under a cone of sodium light The City Sodium lamps in the northern zone Dec 30, 2019 · 5 min read SEQ 0042-2052019-12-23 Drawn scene: a bare concrete corridor under a flickering fluorescent tube The Archive Reading currents, not stories Dec 23, 2019 · 8 min read

Inactive branch

Older entries are not deleted. They are moved to passive storage, where anyone who asks can read them.

Night delivery

Take the register home

One entry a fortnight, sent before the fog lifts. A sample form — wire it to your own list when you ship.