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The Nearly

Do you want the number?

The Nearly

There's a job, a place, a person you didn't get. Someone offers to tell you exactly how close you came. Second out of four hundred, or last, or they never opened your file.

Do you want the number?

Then ask

  • Which one would you ask about first?
  • Which answer would sting worse, second or never opened?
  • Has anyone ever told you how close you came, and what did you do with it?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

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  2. The Room of Slips
  3. Mary's Grey Room
  4. The Lever
  5. The Handwriting
  6. The New Song
  7. Same Dog
  8. The Forgery