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The Last Good Night
The bay has gone red, the drowned are still answering, and the night operator has eight hours to decide which line she keeps open.
- ~107 min (estimated)
- 23578 words
- 62 scenes
- 32 branch points
- 5 endings
24 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
She is twenty-nine, the night operator at KPT-9, and she has kept the line open through storms, two suicides, and the mining disaster that took four men under the hill. The bay has gone red. The drowned are still conscious. The hospital has two hundred cots and sixty-one confirmed dead by eleven o'clock, and the tide is four point eight metres and rising. Kestrel Point is a fishing town of one thousand four hundred on a cold coast, and KPT-9 is a converted chapel on the hill with one eleven kilohertz transmitter, one diesel generator holding nine hundred litres, and a switchboard that can patch a single call at a time. Mara sits behind it with a logbook, a headset, and a rule she has never written down: patch the call, log the time, do not ask who is on the other end. Every shift of her adult life has been that rule performed well. Tonight the rule is the plot. A caller has been on the l
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- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in four scenes
- graphic body horror: the drowned still speaking, a birth sac in the tide, tagged bodies in a morgue
- a hard eight-hour deadline with a rising tide and a ferry that leaves at six o'clock
- on-page deaths of named adults and a hospital count that keeps changing
- drowning, flooding, and a town cut off from the mainland
- grief, a brother lost in the water, and a mother who will not explain who she calls
Cast
- M Mara Voss protagonist no portrait yet
- I Ilia Petrov love interest no portrait yet
- D Dr Sena Okafor love interest no portrait yet
- J Jonah Reed love interest no portrait yet
- R Rev Calloway love interest no portrait yet
- N Nessa Voss supporting no portrait yet
- C Chief Halloran supporting no portrait yet
- T Tilda Mbeki supporting no portrait yet
- O Owen Pike supporting no portrait yet
- D Dr Rook supporting no portrait yet