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    I've recently been unexpectedly promoted to lead a department in my organisation, wrote the anonymous emailer.

     

    As there was no one working here when I arrived, my manager, who is head of the organisation, had promised me the choice of my own assistants. However, without warning, he simply presented me with an additional assistant. This new assistant’s first act on his first day was to let a dog into the office. It took several hours to catch and clean up after this dog and it has only been downhill from there. I admit I'm not entirely sure what to do with this assistant now I'm stuck with him. I'm hoping you have some advice?

     

    Kind regards,
    New Manager

    Abigail Bailey runs a successful management advice blog. One frequent contributor is from a workplace with some... issues.

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    19 Feb 2026

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    “Hey, Jon?” Martin isn’t moving. He sturdies himself, holding Jon back like an anchor. If Jon wanted to go, all he’d have to do is drop Martin’s hand, but he can’t. They’re holding hands. They’re meant to be holding hands. “Why did you say my mother was dead?”

    “I don’t know,” Jon runs his free hand through his messy curls. When had his hair gotten so long? “It just popped into my head like a passing thought, like something I heard somewhere once. We haven’t known each other that long, Martin, I’m sure I just mixed you up with someone else at the Institute.”

    “Like a memory?” Martin asks, quietly.

    “Sure,” Jon says. “Like a memory.”

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    Between phantom earthquakes and visions of a terrifying future, something is very, very wrong at the Institute. And only Jon and Martin can see it.

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    18 Feb 2026

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    Gertrude Robinson had been burning for a long time before she met Agnes. 
    She’d just never thought to use kerosene before.

     

    Before it was Jonathan Sims' war, it was Gertrude and Agnes'.

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    02 Feb 2026

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    "So, what does happen if an Eye learns to See within itself?

     

     

    What happens is this: the Archive Beholds the Watcher – and the Watcher blinks first."

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    Jon goes back to before the world ended and tries to forge a different path.

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    31 Jan 2026

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    Darkness swept over her eyelids. The doom of her fate overcame her.
    Plunged like a pebble in water whose ripples spread wide and then vanish—
    So Wake, the bright blade of her people, was covered and lost in the River.

    The cruel death and grisly afterlife of Commander Wake.

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    26 Jan 2026