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Restricted Access

Access at the hospital is tightening. Certain doors that I’ve walked through every day for years now require an approval…
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Held Line

The perimeter is unchanged this morning. It’s still manned by people in uniforms that don’t quite match the local police,…
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Something Missing

I had a chilling realization today: I don’t hear people laughing outside anymore. It isn’t that the streets are silent—there’s…
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Recorded Behaviour

I’ve made a conscious change in my note-taking: I’m now labelling everything as ‘observed behaviour’ instead of ‘incidents.’ By removing…
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Quiet Acceptance

There is no more pushback when the monitoring systems drop out now. No IT tickets are raised, no emergency meetings…
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Revised Routine

The phrase of the week at the hospital is ‘revised routine.’ It sounds so professional, so managed. We perform the…
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Edges

It’s the end of another week, and the geography of our world has remained unchanged. The borders are still where…
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Still Here (Again)

People have started using a new word for what happened to Charlie: an ‘incident.’ They use it in hushed tones,…
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Footnotes

Ernie here. When you look at old archives, they are full of footnotes written by people who realized far too…
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Quiet Records

I’ve officially stopped hoping that the system logs will explain themselves. They won’t. I’ve spent hours looking for a ‘why’…