- Working title
- The Missing Maintenance Note
- Post type
- Character study
- Project focus
- Housing work
- Mode
- British Comedy + Noir
- Letter form
- Housing-office record
- Core idea
- A housing officer writes up a routine repair visit, but the record starts to suggest everyone knew the damp problem had been ignored for months.
- Narrator pressure
- The narrator is trying to make the delay sound procedural rather than personal.
- Small evidence
- A note saying ‘tenant advised again’ appears without any earlier note showing the first advice.
- Ordinary incident
- A tenant reports mould behind a wardrobe before an inspection.
- Unreliable angle
- The account becomes doubtful because the narrator keeps correcting dates and choosing careful words around responsibility.
- Why it fits A Letter
- It uses a formal record as cover for guilt, which suits A Letter and the Hun voice better than a straight short story prompt.
- Output direction
- Build it later as a controlled official note where the omissions do the damage.