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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    Dear Messrs Barratt and Gowerson,

    I am writing to make a very serious complaint about a book in your children’s catalogue: A Guest for Mr Spider.

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    27 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 31

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    There was a note on the desk.

    Jon wasn’t quite sure if it hadn’t really been there before, or if he had somehow overlooked it, but he picked it up now, a little cautiously, and began to read.

    “Greetings,

    “You have been selected as the next Keeper of the Infinite Archive. Congratulations. This position is non-negotiable and tenured until death.

    “Thank you for your service.”

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  3. Public Bookmark 23

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    “Oh, and … as it’s our first day, I thought, maybe we could have a team lunch? For, er, bonding purposes. At my expense, of course.”

    The words ‘team lunch’ sat very awkwardly in Jon’s mouth - a man who ate at his desk, unless practically levered away from it; who had never been seen at a works do, except for that one Halloween party, where he’d worked late and had to squeeze his way through a sea of slightly tipsy vampires and werewolves, to get out of the building - but there was no way that Tim was turning down either free food, or the chance to see Jonathan Sims’ earnest attempt at ‘bonding’.

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    27 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 14

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    “Do … do any of you three listen to, ah, the podcast ‘What the Ghost?’ at all? The last episode, particularly.”

    “What the what now?”

    It rang a bell, actually, now that Tim thought about it; but not in any context that made sense in the same general region as Jonathan Sims.

    “Is that the podcast about hauntings?” Martin perked up a little at knowing the answer. “And, well, spooky stuff?”

    And, right, that was why Tim had suffered a cognitive disconnect. The podcast was a popular, light-hearted and open-minded exploration of the supernatural, while Jon’s relationship to the supernatural was one of exasperated dismissal. Why on earth he even worked here in the first place … but that just led to thoughts of why Tim, himself, was here and to unhealed wounds and … Tim would prefer to gently mock Jon for listening to a ‘spooky’ podcast, of his own apparent volition.

    “Yes, Martin, it deals with … ‘spooky’ stuff. And, also, apparently, practical jokes.”

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  5. Public Bookmark 5

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