Sunday December 12th, 2021

The exercise:

I think it's time to finish off 2021's yearlong prompt, so let us do so with a festive edition of The East Wallingford Gazette.

Monday November 8th, 2021

The exercise:

Let's see what the penultimate edition of the East Wallingford Gazette has in store for us.

Wednesday October 20th, 2021

The exercise:

Now that I've finally added to last month's edition, it's time to get to the October edition of the East Wallingford Gazette.

Sunday September 12th, 2021

The exercise:

I do believe September's edition of The East Wallingford Gazette is due to arrive right... about... now.

In other news, we went down to Osoyoos this afternoon to celebrate Natalie's 10th birthday. Which can only mean that Max's 9th birthday is lurking somewhere nearby...

Sunday August 15th, 2021

The exercise:

Let us try to get things a little closer to being on track and hit up the August edition of The East Wallingford Gazette today.

Sunday July 25th, 2021

The exercise:

A little late hitting the streets this month, but still ahead of deadline: it's time for another issue of the East Wallingford Gazette.

Sunday June 13th, 2021

The exercise:

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The June Edition of The East Wallingford Gazette is fresh off the press!

Thursday May 13th, 2021

The exercise:

We should check in with the Gazette to see what's been happening in East Wallingford before we get too far into the month.

So... let's do that.

Sunday April 11th, 2021

The exercise:

I think it's about time for our monthly check-in with the East Wallingford Gazette.

Sunday March 14th, 2021

The exercise:

I don't know that the citizens of East Wallingford would care about Pi Day, but maybe one or two of them would?

Regardless, it's time for our monthly check-in on the town via the East Wallingford Gazette.

Sunday February 14th, 2021

The exercise:

Love is in the air.

So why not have a special Valentine's Day edition of the East Wallingford Gazette?

Thursday January 14th, 2021

The exercise:

The yearlong prompts began eight (!) years ago with Mejaran. Vancouver Irrealis followed in 2014, with The Colony hot on its heels. Then came House of Mercy in 2016, The Dream Kingdom in 2017, and Empires in 2018.

I switched things up in 2019 with The Yearlong Poem before being utterly unable to avoid the yearlong pun of Hindsight in 2020.

Now that 2021 has arrived, Greg is bringing us back to something that began on the site where we first met, the now defunct Protagonize. Below he's provided a synopsis of what we're in for and he'll follow that with the first entry.

Though, to be fair, I've given him no warning whatsoever that I'm posting this tonight, so I hope he's got an article ready to go!

Also: I'm quite looking forward to joining in on this, as I never contributed to the original story.

Anyway. Without further ado, allow Greg to introduce those of you who may be unfamiliar with it to: The East Wallingford Gazette.

Synopsis:

The East Wallingford Gazette was the inspiration of its Chief, and only, Editor Archi_Teuthis and launched itself on Protagonize during the site's heydey. Many of the regulars on Protagonize took the opportunity to volunteer as journalists for the paper and the small town of East Wallingford, its competitiveness with West Wallingford, and its somewhat dysfunctional political system were explored through an expanding series of articles.

The Gazette championed East Wallingford at every opportunity, remarking on how its fire service rescued cats, reporting on sporting events with West Wallingford, and charting the dismal progress of Mayoral candidate Milton Stilton and his ongoing court case against his parents for his name. There was nothing too small or insignificant for the Gazette to send out a reporter and find more details of, and it was a veritable journalistic light in the modern media darkness.

When approached for comment, Editor in Command Archi_Teuthis said only that she felt that passing control over to Eloosive placed the paper into secure hands and that she expected the high journalistic standards to be maintained, and that labour relations were no longer her problem and she would continue not paying contributors for as long as she lived.