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The Custody of One Box
Unit 14 of the Lockkeepers self-storage yard on Kelvin Street, Ardwick, is half empty.
- ~217 min (estimated)
- 47839 words
- 85 scenes
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
36 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
It holds forty-one waxed cardboard archive boxes, six broken tea chests, a filing cabinet with its bottom drawer jammed, and the personal effects of a man whose estate has been frozen for eleven weeks because the Crown Prosecution Service retained them under a Criminal Justice Act 1967 section 10 material retention order when he was acquitted at Leeds Crown Court on the eleventh of June. Cassandra Ferrers is fifty. Dominic Ferrers is forty-six. They are the only executors, because their father, Peter Ferrers, left no will, no solicitor, and no one else who would take it. He left a debt of 214,000 pounds, a house on Girlington Row sold for 261,000, a van, and forty-one boxes. The two of them are in Unit 14 on the second morning of the first week of sorting, and they have a key, a skip, a folding table, and a solicitor's letter saying the accounts must be presented by the thirty-first of O
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- the death of a parent, described only from what his two children say about it and from a certificate
- a criminal trial and an acquittal for fraud, described through what two people remember of the gallery
- eleven households owed money by a house they are not living in
- a deliberate false statement given to a member of the public and never corrected
- explicit adult intimacy between a brother and a sister, both adults, written on the page
- coverture by a filing system, and a want that neither of the two admits to for eleven weeks
- a hard moral choice in which every option closes a door that does not open again
Cast
- C Cassandra Ferrers protagonist, co-executor, and the only person in the unit who can read the accounts no portrait yet
- D Dominic Ferrers the person she wants, the second executor, and the man who lies once no portrait yet
- M Mavis Fothergill complainant four, the witness who was not believed, and the only person in the book who says the true thing first no portrait yet
- H Hilary Oyelaran solicitor, and the only person who reads them the number before they sign anything no portrait yet