A journal of everyday city life
Ordinary Hours
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About this journal
Ordinary Hours reports on the city at the times most coverage skips: the evening shift at a reading room, the far end of a bus route, a repair counter that opens once a week. No openings, no rankings — just the places people actually use.
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- Fiction notice
- Every story, person and place in this issue is fictional benchmark content.
- Photographs
- Illustrative stock photography under the Unsplash License. The pictures do not document the fictional places or people described.
- Typefaces
- DM Serif Display, Literata and IBM Plex Mono, all served locally under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.