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The Offer Expiry Is A Person
Bramhall is a city of two hundred and fourteen thousand people on a river with a ford in it, and on the morning of Monday 5 November 2034 a woman called Yusra Mughal puts a document on the kitchen table of number 41 Terrington Road and explains, in the flat register of somebody explaining a term of
- ~136 min (estimated)
- 29949 words
- 79 scenes
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
50 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
That is the mechanism, and it is a real one. A build is not a copy of a person. It is an account, assembled in descending order of attribution, and the largest share in the account is the Resident: the Resident supplies the skeleton, the voice, the name, the legal identity, and the address. Everything else is what Expiry calls the contents. Expiry says this on page four of the agreement in a table, and it says it again in the room, and it does not hide it. Ewan Rooke is a registrar. He has spent twenty-one years writing down which named person is which, in a room with two chairs and a public counter, and he has written down which person is the resident in a Continuity Record two thousand nine hundred and fourteen times, and he has never once had to write one of these for himself. The agreement carries a cooling-off period of fourteen days under section nine of the Transfer Registration A
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- A legal instrument signed in secret by one spouse and disclosed to the other four days later
- A person's share of a document rising while the other person lies still in a pod, three times, on purpose
- A terminal diagnosis described in a scan report, with a date, in the future tense
- A marriage reduced to a percentage and a name in a public book that cannot be amended
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that carries the damage rather than preventing it
- A remedy that exists and is legally unavailable to the only person who needs it
Cast
- E Ewan Rooke Registrar grade 6 at the Bramhall Register Office, twenty-one years, eleven of them in Room 2. Has entered 2,914 Statements of Residence no portrait yet
- N Nell Rooke Conveyancing clerk at Field & Searle, Snape Lane, nine years, signature block N. E. Rooke, four thousand words a day no portrait yet
- Y Yusra Mughal Intake lead at Unit 6, Orrsall Road, nine years in, four and a half before that in neuro no portrait yet
- C Colin Ahearne Records officer at Site C, Seaworth, twenty-two years in industrial records and nine in this no portrait yet
- D Deirdre Rooke Solicitor, first floor, 14 Marsden Road, fifteen years, and Ewan's sister. Has a hearing at two on Tuesdays no portrait yet
- M Marjorie Rooke At 62 Marsden Road. Ewan's mother. Short-term memory loss no portrait yet
- T Tammi Okafor Senior clerk at Field & Searle, twelve years, and Nell's colleague. No portrait no portrait yet
- F Frances Witness officer at Unit 6, nineteen years, a machine labelled BRAMHALL 6. No portrait no portrait yet
- P Paul Kelsall Of Sale. Next on the list, forty-four per cent, holding an envelope since 1 October. Named on page eleven as a reference and never spoken to no portrait yet