The Last Brochure and the Editor's Breakdown

One of the more grim stories in recent memory, in terms of publishing, must surely be that of the Harborside Publishing Company, whose tale still causes people on both the inside and outside of the industry to wince. A moderately successful business, they had made their name by putting out instructional pamphlets, mainly for corporate use. Their fate took an unforeseen turn for the worse with the painful divorce of their head editor, Frank Cranmer, who lost most of his financial assets and was thought to be teetering on the brink of completely losing it when tragedy struck and his house was destroyed in a fire which also claimed the life of his only child, an eight year old son. After taking a surprisingly short amount of time off, Cranmer returned to work. He set to work on the now-infamous "Diversity in the Workplace" brochure, and rushed its release. By the time anyone had realized what they had just put out and exactly how insane their editor had gone, it was far too late. Less than forty-eight hours later, the Harborside Publishing Company had cut its entire staff, closed its doors, and its owners had relocated to an unnamed European country. Presented now for the first time anywhere is the first page of one of the few surviving copies of "Diversity in the Workplace," complete with the ruling errors indicative of the rushed job.