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The Loop Is the Wedding
Ashcombe Mill is a four-storey stone corn mill on the north bank of the River Lugg at Twyford, Gloucestershire, built in 1804, sacked mill and three grindstones, ceased commercial milling in 1971, and licensed for civil marriages by Stroud District Council since the eleventh of March 2019.
- ~208 min (estimated)
- 45945 words
- 96 scenes
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
34 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
It seats ninety standing. Fenella Pilling has run it as a wedding venue for seven seasons and has conducted four hundred and thirty-one ceremonies in it. There is a sluice house at the head of the leat with a 1954 three-detent cast iron paddle gear on a rewirable seven-day timer that Fenella resets every Sunday night with a screwdriver. It runs at 07:20 every morning, whatever the water is doing, and the mill is loud for four minutes. Merrin Oduya is thirty-three and a registrar's assistant at Hereford register office on Widemarsh Street, nine years in the service, on £31,204, with £11,480 in a Nationwide account and a mortgage of £168,000 on a flat in Ledbury. She has conducted two hundred and twelve civil marriages of other people's and none of her own. She is marrying Teodor Vane, thirty-six, a Gas Safe heating engineer who has been married once, in a registry office in Cheltenham, fo
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- Time repetition and loss of autobiographical time
- Injury without violence, and a medical record read aloud in a corridor
- A form signed in a room with five people watching
- A public record naming two people
- Explicit consensual adult intimacy, with an in-world stop word that is used
- A death is not depicted and nobody dies; a previous marriage that lasted fourteen months is stated in dialogue
Cast
- M Merrin Oduya Registrar's assistant at Hereford register office, Grade 5, and the viewpoint character no portrait yet
- T Teodor Vane Gas Safe heating engineer, the person she is marrying, and the person inside the boundary of the building at the time of registration no portrait yet
- F Fenella Pilling Proprietor of Ashcombe Mill, seven seasons, four hundred and thirty-one ceremonies, and the person having control of the building under section three of the certificate of approval no portrait yet
- D Devlin Sarr Sole trader wedding photographer, one of the three who come back, and the only person with a contemporaneous record of the ninth attempt no portrait yet
- M Marianne Oduya Retired ward sister at Hereford County Hospital, and the person who was closest to him in the only room the two of them had alone in the novel no portrait yet
- R Rufus Pilling Venue manager, the person who finds the discharge summary under a coat at six in the morning, and the one person in the building at seven twenty who never comes back to himself no portrait yet