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Page One Issue II October 2026

Editions · October 2026

Issue II: Contents

The lead

Nothing Fixed to the Ground

A frog reads the mall sale for what it rests on

Jump to a desk

Food Living The Dugong Institute Business Education Sports Memoir News Policies Anger Appraisal Art Art Crime Ball Street Best of All Time Bulletin City Hall Corrections Disgust Editorial Enormous Question Essay Infrastructure Interview Media Never Allowed Poem Problem Solving Saying Things Self Truth, Not Yours Style The Critical Strip Unfiled Urban Development Walking When Being Liberal Goes Wrong Ahead of the November paper

Food

This Pepper Don't Weigh Sheeeeit

A Cashier · A cashier on the customers who buy one small pepper, and what the scale says about them.

Living

I Laying Here

Stagger and Sandy Beaches · A wallaby asked a goose a question in the late 2000s, received one sentence of advice, and has been on the beach ever since

Marsupial Lion

Wogga · A dispatch from the dentist, in Taunton, which is in Massachusetts, which is the point.

Sink, Saddle, Source

Eleffantington and Giraffington see a couples counselor. She draws three pictures.

The Dugong Institute

Dugong Tells 44,000 Agents to Shush, Says They Have Been Attacking the Wrong Problem

Institute declines to state whether the effort is a research program or a maintenance-fee event; gull reports the agents are now discussing whether to continue

Miracles: A Symposium

Local Li · Koala Pinker and Nim Chimpsky debate whether language happened. Koala Deutsch fluffs. Koala Everett snickers. Minutes by Local Li.

Business

Detention Center Finds Its Way Out of Bankruptcy

The plan is a pipeline. It runs from the neighborhood to the intake door, and it is already mostly built.

Education

Smith Hill Student Insists She Has Nine Point Something Fingers

Knot Sure · Teachers and doctors are weighing remediation, medication, or both. The Gazette did the arithmetic.

We Are Banning Your Right Arm

The Right Arm · A right arm reads the statute it is named in

Sports

Men's Sports Going Just Fine, Sources Confirm

Attendance is steady, the leagues are paid, and nobody has asked whether it is having a moment.

eBike Sets East Bay Bike Record, Hits 80 mph

Mark stands pending ratification; previous record-holder gracious

Memoir

I'm Back, Not That Anyone Cares

A crimson tie, a Benetton bag nobody has explained, a seven-year-old investor deck still marked confidential, and one room where the deference is already installed.

The Goat

Ninety-three minutes on a Sunday, a decommissioned rail line, and a training block that quietly declines four numbers out of fourteen.

News

The Other Perelman Reads the Map

Perelman · Twenty-five million dollars bought a district with no edge. The paper's Perelman, who once declined a million, walks it.

Policies

Generative AI

The short version. The long one, with the shallots, is on the website.

Privacy

The short version. The long one is on the website, and it is the one that counts.

Anger

Anger

Daniel · Daniel is a sound engineer in his fifties with three compost heaps. He has not figured out what to do with it.

Appraisal

Check the Papers

Koala Edlis · An appraisal of the ball of oil, in its absence. Twenty dollars, for the ball and for what's on the insides.

Art

It's Just That Simple

Koala Edlis · A shallow collector explains bad art in two rules and applies them to the finest building on the East Side. A curator says the signal was never the problem.

Art Crime

Not on the Beach

Edna · The ball was sent to clean up the beach. The beach is clean. The ball is not on it.

Ball Street

State Bus Authority Spends Millions to Scope a Pivot Into Seating

Six studies and about $7 million later, the authority will design a room where riders can sit down and watch buses through a wall.

Best of All Time

The B.O.A.T. Party

Koala KMFH · Six passengers. The rule for boarding is at the end.

Bulletin

No Boogeypeople in the City. No Boogiepeople Either.

The Soul Collector, The Collector of Soul · The Collector of Soul reports none whatsoever. The spelling is unresolved. Maybe next month.

City Hall

Bear Patrol Reports No Bears Found, Procures Rock

Staff · The body charged with determining who bears the cost has finished its first year without locating anyone. A rock has been requisitioned. Koala Russell was present.

Local Man Finds the Correct Number in Minutes

The city said 44 percent. A data institute said 60. The difference is the apartment the landlord lives in.

Corrections

Corrections

The record on the coalition, the boogeyman, and the word, corrected in the order the corrections arrived.

Disgust

Sundays

Discussed

Editorial

Too Local to Fail

The state built a brewery a $7 million building and rents it for $500 a month. The Gazette proposes the same terms for everyone.

Enormous Question

The Question of Whether We Are Alone Is Raised on the Green

Juice the Rabbit · Six first-years, a gallery, three hours. Grass, trees, fungus, one squirrel and one rabbit were present throughout and were not consulted.

Essay

Growing Up in America

A Spotted Lanternfly · One of us was killed on a table at 195 District Park on a Wednesday in September. The woman said she was supposed to. She was.

Infrastructure

Federal Agency Finds Providence Safe Until 2100

The barrier will hold. The city only has to arrange to be behind it every day of the year.

Interview

East Side Wombat Reports Best Day of His Life, Daily

Stagger Lee · He is missing his right hind leg and his left forefoot, and asked that his name not be printed. Stagger Lee went to see him.

Perhaps Humanity

L.B.R. · Lance asked an old koala one question. The koala tells it, as near as he can.

Media

Local Media Outlet Attacks Political Candidate for Changing His Name for Very Well-Intentioned Good Reasons

Saying Things · A review of numerous records finds that a man with two surnames used one of them. This paper reviewed the finding and could not locate the offense.

Never Allowed

Overtime, Working Summary

Never Allowed · The city released two documents about WaterFire. One says what the city pays. The other says what the city gets paid.

Poem

When They Meet

Actual Heir

Problem Solving

Saying Things

Nominee Would Prefer the Festival Were in Summer

The preference was released the day the festival opened. The festival was not asked.

Self Truth, Not Yours

Determined Within

Speak Up · An employee reviewed herself, then told herself how to improve. Nobody had asked.

Style

Nothing to See Here

Jamaica · A bucket hat opens the style desk with the only rule it intends to enforce

The Critical Strip

The Gazette Recommends Renaming Waterman Street

Staff · Mixed Commercial Rssixential Street. The spelling is correct.

Unfiled

Urban Development

Canal Workforce Weighs Organizing

Fairy Tales · Stoppage found to be already in progress; start date unknown; employer not notified

Number Not Counted Since 2012 Reaches $151 Million

Fairy Tales · The House adjusted a 2012 study for inflation and moved to appropriate $750,000. Attendance is nearly one million in every telling.

Walking

A Happy Man Takes a Walk

E · An otter in the Bywater, on his back, with a stone

When Being Liberal Goes Wrong

Voters Replace Lieutenant Governor, 71,851 to 42,568. She Stays.

Four challengers agreed she should go. None of them could agree to be the one who went.

Ahead of the November paper

The Art in Hartmann

Hilda · Three mathematicians cannot agree whether what they do is an art or a science. One of them is outvoted by his own surname.