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The Four O'Clock Ice
Eighty-eight pounds fifty a block, thirty weeks, and a name in the diary that is not hers.
- ~127 min (estimated)
- 27957 words
- 54 scenes
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
41 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
She is thirty-one. She coaches the squad she used to skate for, on a knee that ended her at twenty-seven, and she has been careful with money since the funding board moved hers somewhere else and nobody wrote to tell her. The somebody else is Tomas Beck, twenty-seven, captain of the men's hockey team that shares the rink, on a one-year contract that runs out in April and a right shoulder that has been strapped since October. The Mariners are on eighteen points and safety is thirty, with eight games left, and the ice is the only thing they have. The squad's ice is contracted to the last block, and the block the club can afford is the four o'clock, and the block the squad can live without is also the four o'clock, and Nessa is the only person in the building who can make both of those true at once. Everything in this book is priced. A block is eighty-eight pounds fifty. A season of squad i
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- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a career-ending knee injury and an operation that was never affordable
- a league fine, a points deduction, and a squad losing its place
- a council vote to close a municipal rink and a public subsidy under review
- money kept secret inside a working relationship, and the cost of saying it out loud
Cast
- N Nessa Kilbride protagonist no portrait yet
- T Tomas Beck love interest no portrait yet
- M Marguerite Dow supporting no portrait yet
- P Priya Raval supporting no portrait yet
- D Danny Wray supporting no portrait yet
- E Elsie Kilbride supporting no portrait yet
- J Josef Beck supporting no portrait yet
- C Councillor Hale antagonist-adjacent no portrait yet
- B Bo Tran supporting no portrait yet