DELILAH FABER

The Notebook

Notes from the Bench

Open tickets, repair stories, research rabbit holes, and dispatches from Gault Mills.

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REPAIR LOG · JULY 21, 2026 · 6 MIN READ
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A customer had said the woman weighed heavy, and the talk went round the town a day before her scale reached my bench. She wanted it checked, not defended, and the weights had an answer that ran the other way from the accusation.

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Archive · March 2026

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Almanac · Mar 31 · 2 min
The Town and the River

Gault Mills is a town I am inventing for the mysteries I write. The first fact I settled about it is that it starts at the river.

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Craft · Mar 24 · 3 min
Why I Write About Broken Things

For twenty years I wrote down how things broke. This is why I turned that work into mysteries.

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Reading paths

Curated trails through the notebook
New here? Start at the bench
What this notebook is, and the ideas the whole book rests on.
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Building Gault Mills
The invented town, board by board — its river, its mill, its streets.
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The Repair Log
Broken things on the bench, and what their wear quietly confesses.
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Fixed to Death

A retired failure analyst reads the broken things her town brings in — and when a death gets called an accident, she knows better. The first Repair Café Mystery.

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