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Every Tuesday for Four Years
Pendraig Time Standards Laboratory is sixty-one metres into a disused slate quarry under the valley at Llandysul, in Ceredigion, and it holds the national secondary time standard, a caesium fountain clock, a hydrogen maser and one hydrogen maser's worth of heat.
- ~171 min (estimated)
- 37828 words
- 58 scenes
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
36 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Nesta Fallow, 38, is the frequency and timing metrologist who holds the UKAS technical signatory for the site's scope. Emrys Cadwallader, 35, is the power and magnet systems engineer who owns the 28-volt bus and the auxiliary changeover panel on the surface. Every Tuesday at 19:00 GMT the changeover panel has fired a test transfer for four years and one day, on a seven-day timer that was set at commissioning in 1978 and never moved off the slot it was commissioned into. On the first Tuesday it fired, Nesta and Emrys were inside the cage. They have been inside the cage every time since. They both know. The reader knows inside a hundred words, because the first line either of them says out loud is that this is a Tuesday and the next one will be too, and the second thing said is that there is a notebook in the rack by the door with the numbers in it. Nothing is hidden from anybody. There is
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- the implied withdrawal of consent and its consequences, written on the page
- a relationship loss described directly, without softening
- no minors and no minors-coded characters
- no violence and no injury
- no drug use
- no slurs written out; bigotry shown only through behaviour and consequence
- explicit adult intimacy between consenting adults only
Cast
- N Nesta Fallow protagonist, senior metrologist, UKAS technical signatory, keeper of the logbook no portrait yet
- E Emrys Cadwallader the person the protagonist wants, the owner of the changeover panel, and the man who stopped asking on 16 June 2026 no portrait yet
- D Delyth Prosser radio protection adviser, the only possible witness, and the person they use in the fourth year no portrait yet
- P Perys Vaughan-Okoye site manager, above ground, the pressure, and the person who has been to the police once no portrait yet
- H Hywel Bowen retired clock keeper, present only as handwriting and as four words on a mount card no portrait yet