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The House Arrives in March
A semi-detached house on a cul-de-sac in Ashcombe moved thirty-eight metres along its own row in one night in March 2026.
- ~151 min (estimated)
- 33326 words
- 112 scenes
- 12 branch points
- 4 endings
34 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
No cover art yet · art review pending · listing metadata: listing.json · counts: authored
About
It did not slide and it was not carried. Everything that was fixed to the house came with it — the boiler, the kitchen extension laid in 1994, the Pringle of a plate drying rack, the cat, the people asleep in the beds. Everything that was fixed to the ground did not: the drive, the path, the bin store, the boundary wall with the electricity meter in it, the sycamore on the green, the hedge that had been there since the drainage was dug in 1971. From the road nothing had changed. From the kitchen window everything had. The address came with the house, so the post still arrived, and the people who had lived at number fourteen became the people who lived at the ground of number twenty-two, and the people who had lived at number twenty-two became the people who lived at the ground of number fourteen, and not one of them found the arrangement strange, because a street is not a set of houses.
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- domestic horror, not supernatural horror: the threat is administrative and domestic
- descriptive violence is absent; nobody is hurt and nobody dies on any route
- explicit sexual content between two consenting married adults, written, in one scene
- consent is negotiated out loud in clauses and either person can stop it with one word
- the encounter gates no choice and no ending
- grief about a dead parent, a dead spouse and a neighbour who leaves
- social isolation and the loss of community as a subject, not as a threat
- no minors, no minors-coded characters, no ambiguity
- no instructional detail for any procedure, trade or offence
- no slurs are written out anywhere in the text
- all places, companies, offices, forms and people are fictional
Cast
- R Rhea Naismith Loss adjuster at Fenwick and Doyle Claims, 24 Sir Henry Wilde Street, Ashcombe, eleven years in, Grade 4, and viewpoint character no portrait yet
- G Gareth Naismith Gas engineer, Trentside Gas Services, Gas Safe registration 236418, registered engineer, nine years, three hundred and forty boilers a year no portrait yet
- D Dot Halliday Of 12 Alder Grove Rise, nine years, widow of Ron since 2016, and the neighbour the book is about no portrait yet