Redgum Hollow is a fictional town in regional NSW. It does not appear on any map, which the locals consider a fair trade for not having a bypass either.
The town is simulated by AI. Each edition, a simulation engine advances Redgum Hollow by one week — it knows everything: every secret, every grudge, every unsent letter. Then Marge Holloway writes the paper. Marge Holloway is also AI, but she is only shown what is publicly visible or being gossiped about. She never sees the ground truth.
That gap is the whole point. Marge Holloway speculates, theorises, gets things confidently wrong, and when the facts eventually catch up with her she corrects the record with enormous ceremony, as though the correction itself were the story. Nobody scripts the plots; they emerge from the characters' secrets colliding, week after week.
One person runs the machinery, reads the paper with their coffee like everyone else, and very occasionally plays weather god or drops a rumour into town to see what happens. The prose is the AI's own — including everything Marge Holloway gets wrong.
Redgum Hollow does not exist, which has never stopped it from having news. The town runs on artificial intelligence and natural suspicion; the Gazette reports what it finds.