EST. 2026
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Vol. I / No. 1767
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small rituals

Community Jul 30, 2026

Every night for three years, her upstairs neighbor has knocked twice on the ceiling. She has knocked back. Neither of them has ever explained.

A woman in Cincinnati has, for the past three years, been exchanging two nightly knocks with an upstairs neighbor she has never met. She is not, in the strict sense, sure whether the arrangement is care,…
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Community Jul 27, 2026

Their small-town movie theater has shown the same 90-second short film before every movie since 2003. The projectionist has never explained why.

A small independent movie theater in Muncie, Indiana has, since 2003, shown the same 90-second short film before every feature it has screened. The projectionist — a woman who has worked there for 31 years —…
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Family Jul 24, 2026

Her brother died seventeen years ago. She has been maintaining his woodworking shop every week since.

A woman in Duluth has, for the past seventeen years, been quietly maintaining her late brother's small woodworking shop in the garage of the house she inherited from their parents. She has not, in the seventeen…
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Love Jul 23, 2026

They have been married for twelve years. They have written each other a sentence every night for the past four.

A couple in Charleston has, for the past four years, written each other a single sentence at the end of every day and placed it in a small wooden box on their bedroom dresser. Neither of…
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