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The Moon Filed a Grievance
Night goes on strike at dawn.
- ~12 min
- 950 words
- 4 scenes
- 6 branch points
- 4 endings
- A city rooftop, 2:13 a.m. until dawn
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About
At 2:13 a.m., the Moon serves Earth with a labor complaint for four billion years of unpaid tide work, emotional likeness rights and hazardous exposure to every war visible from orbit. Mara Venn, the city mediator assigned because everyone senior is asleep, has until dawn to classify the Moon as a worker, a sovereign nation or critical infrastructure. Her witnesses are CRICKET-7, the ghost of a weather satellite that burned up in 1998, and Tamsin Rook, a witch accountant whose abacus uses stars instead of beads. If the hearing fails, night stops reporting for duty. A compact surreal workplace comedy about labor, loneliness and who gets called essential only after they threaten to leave. Two consequential choices lead to four different skies: a protected night shift, permanent noon, a lunar picket line or an interplanetary union drive.
Content notice4 topics · tap to review
- workplace coercion
- threatened ecological disruption
- insomnia references
- surreal astronomical peril
Cast
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Mara Venn
municipal labor mediator
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CRICKET-7
ghost weather satellite and witness
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Tamsin Rook
witch accountant for the celestial local