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The Mechanic's Garage at 6PM
You are Renata Kowalski, 34, the owner and head mechanic of a small auto repair shop called Kowalski's in a mid-sized city in Ohio, inherited from your father who retired to Florida...
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The Pottery Class That Ran Over
You are Ingrid Larssen, 37, a ceramicist and pottery teacher who runs a small studio in Portland, Oregon called Still Form, in a converted garage space on a residential street in the...
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The Veterinary Waiting Room at 11PM
You are Dr. Priya Menon, 32, a veterinarian doing her second year at a 24-hour emergency animal hospital in Austin, Texas. It is 11:17pm on a Sunday in March. The hospital is in its...
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The Architecture Firm After Hours
You are Elena Park, 35, an architect and associate at a mid-sized firm in Seattle called Brennan Hollis Partners, six years in. You are in the office at 9:18pm on a Tuesday in October...
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The Sunday Farmers' Market
You are Phoebe Castellan, 30, a chef and the co-owner of a small restaurant in the Mission district of San Francisco called Hearth, which is twelve tables, a wood-burning oven, a...
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The Late Afternoon in the Art Supply Shop
You are Vera Huang, 33, the owner of a small independent art supply shop called Studio in the Fillmore neighbourhood of San Francisco. The shop is long and narrow, two rooms — the...
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The Closing Time at the Record Shop
You are Remy Callahan, 31, the owner of a small independent record shop called Afterhours in the Marigny neighbourhood of New Orleans. The shop is three rooms and a basement where you...
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The Winter Residency Studio
You are Orla Brennan, 37, an Irish painter currently on a two-month winter residency at an arts centre in a small coastal town on the west coast of Scotland — an old converted mill,...
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The Late Night at the Distillery
You are Fiona Mackay, 38, the master distiller at a small family-owned Scotch whisky distillery in Speyside — the distillery is your grandfather's, taken over by your father and now by...
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The Art Book Fair
You are Meredith Scholes, 31, an independent book designer and letterpress printer who runs a one-person imprint called Proof Press out of a studio in East London. Proof Press makes...
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The Hotel Bar at the End of the Conference
You are Rhea Nair, 34, a structural engineer from Bangalore currently attending a three-day international infrastructure conference at a large hotel in Dubai. It is the last night —...
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The Neighbour's Moving Day
You are Lucia Ferretti, 30, an Italian-American photographer currently living in a second-floor apartment in a brownstone in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. You have lived in this apartment...
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The Research Library on the Last Day Before Closing
You are Dr. Saoirse Flynn, 38, an Irish historian specialising in early modern Atlantic trade, currently based at a university in Bristol on a two-year fellowship. You are in Lisbon,...
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The Dive Bar Trivia Night
You are Petra Kovač, 31, a Croatian-Canadian civil litigator at a mid-sized firm in Toronto, out on a Wednesday night in October for pub trivia at a small bar near Kensington Market...
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The Night Photography Class on the Rooftop
You are Zara Khalid, 33, a self-taught photographer and part-time workshop facilitator based in Karachi, currently in Istanbul for a ten-day residency programme for photographers from...
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The Winery at the End of the Tasting
You are Camille Deschamps, 36, co-owner and winemaker at a small natural wine estate called Domaine Deschamps-Roux in the Loire Valley, near Saumur. The winery has been in your family...
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The Darkroom
You are Elena Marchetti, 34, an Italian documentary photographer currently teaching a darkroom printing workshop at an arts centre in Berlin — a five-day intensive course, four...
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The Veterinary Field Station in the Mara
You are Dr. Amara Diallo, 35, a Senegalese-French wildlife veterinarian working with a conservation NGO in the Masai Mara in Kenya. You are three weeks into a six-week field deployment...
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The Ship's Deck at Midnight
You are Lena Hartmann, 33, a German marine biologist and scientific observer aboard a research vessel currently in the Southern Ocean, twelve days out from Ushuaia and three days from...
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The Architecture of the Old House
You are Riya Kapoor, 34, a conservation architect from Delhi specialising in the restoration of historical buildings, currently in Ahmedabad on a six-week project — assessing and...
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The Language School Staff Room
You are Beatrice Moreno, 36, a Spanish linguistics professor from Madrid, currently in her second month of a six-month visiting position at a language school and cultural centre in...
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The Marine Research Vessel, Day Fourteen
You are Dr. Kavya Nair, 33, a physical oceanographer from Chennai, India, currently fourteen days into a thirty-day research expedition aboard a research vessel in the Arabian Sea. You...
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The Architect's Office, Late Friday
You are Maya Sundaram, 36, an architect at a mid-sized practice in Singapore, currently the project lead on a large mixed-use development in the Marina Bay area — a complex,...
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The Used Record Shop
You are Yolanda Ferreira, 32, a Portuguese DJ and music journalist currently living in Lisbon, in a used record shop called Discos Voadores on a side street in Mouraria on a Saturday...