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Chapter 33

Penelope receives a drunk invitation from the wilderness.

The terrain is reviewed.

Rugged spontaneity theater is declined.

Abby handles perimeter security.

Entry protocol is established.

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Chapter 32

Dinner requires a digestive quest.

Penelope prepares for the collapse of society.

Jack contributes shelving.
A question is asked at an inappropriate horizontal hour.

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Chapter 31

Penelope arrives dressed for dinner with no apparent regard for neutrality.

Jack experiences several internal staffing failures.

Maggie serves dinner under increasingly compromised circumstances.

Potatoes are endangered.

A grip is requested.

A grip is not produced.

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Chapter 30

Final part of the small moral emergency trilogy.

The system fails.

Penelope attempts to be less weird.

Jack makes several logistical corrections.

Nobody is rescued.

Something does come back.

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Chapter 29

This one is about what happens when you notice something ugly in yourself and then attempt to correct it using the worst possible internal management system.

Penelope does learn a lesson.

Unfortunately, she immediately makes the lesson weird.

Everyone is trying. Everyone is tired. Nothing technically happens, which is one of the more violent forms of happening.

A system is developed.

The system is deranged.

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Chapter 28

This one is about a coffee lid, unfortunately.

It is also about the tiny laundering machine in my brain that occasionally takes something morally sticky, runs it through a gentle cycle, and hands it back labeled Respectful Behavior.

Which is inconvenient, because sometimes it is respectful behavior.

And sometimes there is a second thing behind it with its little awful hands on the wheel.

I don’t think shame fixes much. I do think naming the thing can. Or at least it gives you half a second more than you had before – which, apparently, is sometimes the whole moral structure.

Anyway. Coffee lid. A completely normal beverage accessory. Naturally it ruined my life.

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Chapter 27 

An accommodation arrives.
Penelope attempts a small act of domestic gaslighting.
Jack does not participate in this lie.

Everyone is normal about the bathroom.

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