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Tabhoard: The Forty Browser Tabs You Are Definitely Going to Read
Tabhoard is the quiet row of open browser tabs you are keeping for later, each one a small promise that later will somehow arrive.
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Fiction Made-Up Words
Stairhoard: The Pile That Lives at the Bottom of the Stairs
(n.) The small, patient heap at the foot of the staircase, made entirely of things that belong upstairs, which the whole household steps over for six days.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Remote Control That Hides Itself
A television remote with rubber tracks and a clock inside, which drives itself into the gap between the sofa cushions every night at eleven, because that is where it feels safest.
Fiction Made-Up Words
Plugspin
(n.) The ritual of trying a plug one way up, then the other, then the first way again, which somehow now works perfectly.
Fiction Made-Up Words
Pocketdrum
(n.) The brisk little drumroll you play on your own pockets in the doorway, checking for keys, phone and wallet in the same order every single time.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Postbox That Gets a New Hat Each Season
Nobody has ever seen the knitter, but four times a year the postbox on the corner wakes up wearing something new.
Fiction Useless Inventions
The Certificate Printer for Small Wins
A desk machine that prints a formal, gold-bordered certificate for achievements such as remembering to take the washing in before it rained.
Fiction Made-Up Words
Bagpride
(n.) The quiet private triumph of getting the entire shop into one bag, felt by somebody who will never be able to tell anyone about it.
Fiction Animal News — Fiction
Fox Returns Single Shoe, Offers No Explanation
The boot was taken from the doorstep in June. It came back to the same doorstep in September, cleaned and facing the house.
Fiction Tiny Stories
The Village Clock That Is Four Minutes Fast
It has been four minutes fast since 1971, and the village has twice voted, decisively, to leave it exactly as it is.