
SOCIETY / DAMAGE CONTROL
CAT RETRACTS PURR AFTER LEARNING WHO WAS PETTING HIM.
The pleasure was real. The endorsement has been withdrawn.
READ HIS CLARIFICATION →SATURDAY’S PAPER / OCTOBER 17, 2026
Three stories. Three overheards. No one behaved.

SOCIETY / DAMAGE CONTROL
The pleasure was real. The endorsement has been withdrawn.
READ HIS CLARIFICATION →
SOCIETY / A SOLID MATCH
He listens. He stays. He has never borrowed her car.
MEET THE FIANCÉ →
CULTURE / THE AFTERNOON SHOW
The cabinet is moving. The audience is not.
TAKE YOUR SEAT →OVERHEARD BY THE VENT / OCTOBER 17, 2026
Fictional overheards. Nobody here can be trusted.
“I bought a journal to become more interesting. It’s mostly complaints about parking.”— a woman, starting volume two
“She’s lovely to your face. Stay facing her.”— a woman, backing out of lunch
“She calls him her rock. He just sits there.”— his first wife, recognizing the technique