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Eleven guests, twelve beds, one hundred years, and a bride who knows what she was made for.
- ~97 min
- 21341 words
- 33 branch points
- 5 endings
- 22 plays
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Content notice (5)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in four scenes, one per route
- body horror: living grafts, a graft bed, a surgical theatre, a wall of photographs and a jar of wedding rings
- a bride dying of the correction that made her, and a death on the page
- a house that has corrected its guests for one hundred years and a ledger that counts the ones who did not leave
- a flooded causeway, a rising tide, and a woman standing in the water
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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
- 23578 words
- 32 branch points
- 5 endings
- 25 plays
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Content notice (6)
- 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
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The Resonance
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One thousand one hundred and seventy-six hours of oxygen, forty-nine days of relief, and the one thing she never asked the alien keeping them all alive.
- ~115 min
- 25447 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 45 plays
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Content notice (5)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a hard survival deadline: a finite oxygen reserve, a ration shortfall, and a nine day gap before relief
- a bounty placed on a sentient species by a human colony
- isolation, confinement, and a body mark that does not fade
- a scientist falsifying a research record
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The Arrangement at Long Fell
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Eleven clauses in his ink, and not one line of it in hers.
- ~120 min
- 26560 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 45 plays
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Content notice (5)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a negotiated power exchange written down by one party and not the other
- a spinal injury and the daily management of a long-term condition, never depicted in detail
- a family business in arrears and a bank's deadline
- money, class, and the power that a wage gives one person over another
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The Collector's House
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She signed the guarantee at twenty-two and never asked whose money it was.
- ~124 min
- 27306 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 47 plays
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Content notice (6)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a parent's death off the page and the paperwork of a funeral and an estate
- a debt bought at eleven pence in the pound, an interest-only schedule, and a county court hearing in prospect
- a bailiff's charge and the threat of goods being taken from a family home
- the sale of a mother's house weighed against keeping a father's name out of the record
- debt, class, and coercion in the terms of an arrangement
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The Four O'Clock Ice
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Eighty-eight pounds fifty a block, thirty weeks, and a name in the diary that is not hers.
- ~127 min
- 27957 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 42 plays
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Content notice (5)
- 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
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The Third Clause
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Three quarters of an inch a night, three thalers of tallow a watch, and a name she never asked about.
- ~129 min
- 28578 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 47 plays
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Content notice (5)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a nine-year indenture signed in a parent's hand while the protagonist was ill
- a drowning remembered from two years earlier, not depicted
- a stolen record, a published measurement, and a price set for silence
- debt, a sealed contract, and a court that cannot pay for its own watches
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Six Weeks Up Front
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Seven hundred and eighty pounds in an Asda bag, and a name she never put on anything.
- ~125 min
- 27519 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 42 plays
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Content notice (5)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a parent's death off the page and the paperwork of a funeral
- a mortgage in default in prospect and a care-home fee that cannot be met
- the sale of a family business and a father's residential care weighed against it
- grief, class shame, and a cash tenancy with no legal protection
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The Jury Is Out For The Night
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Wrenmoor is a city of 126,000 in the invented county of Netherwold, and on the night of Wednesday 22 July 2026 a woman was killed in a terraced house four streets from the ring road with a fire iron taken off her own hearth.
- ~232 min
- 51049 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 46 plays
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Content notice (8)
- Murder trial and a stated killing
- Access to a household address by a neighbour on the night of a killing
- A concealment of evidence and perjury
- A conviction of the witness and a term of imprisonment
- A curfew, a tag and the threat of recall to custody
- An estrangement between married partners over a statement in a court
- Explicit sexual content between consenting adults, said out loud, with an agreed stop word
- Explicit language about a body
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The Offer Expiry Is A Person
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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
- 29949 words
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
- 51 plays
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Content notice (6)
- 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
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He Comes Back on Tuesday
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Harrowgate Fell Radio Observatory sits eleven kilometres above Cwmffrw on a moor where the rain comes sideways off the Cymyran, and it holds two dishes, a hydrogen maser, and a switch that is thrown every Tuesday night at 22:00 for ninety minutes because the 33/11 kV substation at Cwmffrw is on a sw
- ~81 min
- 17981 words
- 8 branch points
- 5 endings
- 45 plays
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Content notice (7)
- Non-consensual erasure and restoration of memory
- Coercive institutional cover-up by procedure
- A research ethics breach carried for eleven years
- A knowingly false entry in a safety log
- Site closure, compulsory redundancy, and lapsed professional accreditation
- A written sexual encounter inside a coercive arrangement, renegotiated aloud in full
- A nine-year-old named once, offstage, and never appearing
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The Second Chance Is a Room
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Hoddensett is a limestone village of three hundred and forty people above Settle in the North Yorkshire Wolds, with one Co-op and post office counter, one pub, a bus to Settle at 07:14 and 13:40, and one belief that everybody there can state in a single sentence and nobody will state twice.
- ~291 min
- 64101 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 48 plays
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Content notice (9)
- infantil loss referred to as a height chart and an unfilled line; no child is depicted or described
- coercive and loving marital conflict, including a spouse saying something cruel to win an argument
- emotional manipulation by a well-meaning third party
- public professional humiliation and a career consequence
- a statutory declaration the protagonist knows to be arguable
- explicit sexual content between consenting adults
- body and hair description in an explicit scene
- an ending that withholds resolution on the central question
- no death, no injury, no violence that lands
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The Thing She Said at the Crossing
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A level crossing on a single-track branch line in the English Midlands has a fixed ritual in it.
- ~149 min
- 32848 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 55 plays
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Content notice (3)
- a woman who has not told one person in eleven years, and a man who has not asked one question in eleven years
- grief, prolonged, in a house with an Aga and a gravel drive
- a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing
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The Day After The Verdict
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Corwen Lyle is thirty-nine.
- ~346 min
- 76138 words
- 8 branch points
- 5 endings
- 45 plays
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Content notice (9)
- A conviction and a prison sentence, and the fact of one that cannot be overturned
- A woman under examination about her own liability, deferred to a date in December
- A man injured in an industrial incident and a coroner's inquest into his injuries
- An insurance claim and civil proceedings in a public court
- A mother asking her son for money
- A town blaming a woman for telling the truth
- A household whose freehold is in one person's sole name after eight years
- A hard moral choice where no option is clean and every branch closes a door
- Sexual content between adults, with consent stated aloud, in a house that is one of the document locations
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Two Hours and Eleven Minutes
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Alderfen City Police keeps one cold room on Marrow Lane and two people on the night rota.
- ~287 min
- 63345 words
- 15 branch points
- 4 endings
- 47 plays
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Content notice (10)
- Death of a 21-year-old woman and the mortuary examination of her body
- Graphic but non-gratuitous injury description from a Home Office post-mortem
- A body recovered from a drainage culvert after eleven days
- A fatal collision on a slip road and a death that a coroner does not take
- A family home after a death: a chair, a jumper, a receipt for four pounds fifty
- A career ended by an honest disclosure
- Institutional pressure, a conduct referral, and a professional standards process
- A judicial review that finds nothing
- An explicit sexual scene between two adults that stops part-way through on an agreed word
- A hard moral refusal, spoken out loud, twice, in rooms with witnesses
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The Turbine by the Sea
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Belver Head is fifty-one metres of granite in Cornwall with a 4.
- ~117 min
- 25910 words
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
- 53 plays
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Content notice (8)
- Falsified safety record and a countersignature given 340 times
- Use of a partner's undiagnosed shoulder as a reason to keep her in place
- Written explicit sexual content between two consenting adults in a cold loft
- A recorder that has been capturing a room since 1976
- A drowning referenced but not depicted
- Regulatory investigation and withdrawal of a professional authorisation
- An implication of professional complicity by omission since 1988
- A hard moral choice with no option that undoes the damage
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The Bridge Is Rated For Forty
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The Nethra Viaduct carries four lanes and a footway 212 metres over the tidal River Kell, eleven weeks and three days from a vote that will certify it for another eleven years without anybody standing on it.
- ~214 min
- 47222 words
- 10 branch points
- 4 endings
- 37 plays
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Content notice (5)
- A bridge that is over its limit and is signed off anyway.
- A falsified or never-verified model input, and a data science ticket closed as expected drift.
- Weight restriction, road diversion, freight cost, and two small businesses closing.
- A person resigning by email and a professional reputation ending in a file.
- A woman saying no to something she wanted, and the no being correct.
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The Year He Was There
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The Wrekin Deep is a decommissioned stratiform lead-zinc mine on the A5 near Llantwitau, taken on lease in 2021 by a small consortium that runs one machine a thousand one hundred and twenty metres down.
- ~160 min
- 35290 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 35 plays
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Content notice (11)
- Coercive control within a marriage
- Memory loss and the loss of a person's own history
- An industrial accident and its concealment
- A financial deception against a family that is still paying for it
- A non-consensual restraint, described in the past tense
- Explicit sexual content between spouses, stopping on a spoken word
- Self-harm ideation by a protagonist, stated and refused
- A legal signature that cannot be withdrawn
- Medical procedures described in a mine chamber and a surgery
- A hard moral set of choices with no option that does not cost something
- Death of named characters before and off the page
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The Water Is Fourteen Degrees
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Llyn Cae Duyn is a flooded slate quarry above Cwmorthin in the mountains, worked from 1841 to 1889 and holding thirty-four metres of green water at the drowned adit.
- ~219 min
- 48196 words
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
- 37 plays
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Content notice (11)
- Suicide, an agreed pact, and a drowning
- Death of a lead character, repeated across five endings
- Cold-water immersion and cold-shock physiology
- Deliberate breath-holding
- Antidepressant medication and a whole dose taken
- Explicit sexual content between consenting adults
- Body recovery from water
- An inquest
- A family member misled by a true statement
- Sibling estrangement on a bereavement route
- No minor in any role
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The Become Is Forever
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Two people uploaded themselves into one shared instance seventeen months ago and have spent every day since agreeing, in writing and out loud, to be one person.
- ~220 min
- 48553 words
- 11 branch points
- 6 endings
- 33 plays
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Content notice (5)
- A shared consciousness with no privacy on one specific side, described mechanically and used as the engine of the book
- A statutory declaration that requires one of two people to state in writing how many days she was alone and self-aware
- An offer on the table to withdraw one person permanently to a read-only archive, and an ending in which it is accepted
- Institutional control of a legal identity through a bank mandate, a driving licence and a form with a box on it
- Explicit language about a body
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She Has Been Here Before
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Ashlade Point is a decommissioning site on the Cumbrian coast, a Magnox station that stopped making electricity in 1995 and has been stopping ever since, and Mairi Skene, 34, is its document controller.
- ~230 min
- 50606 words
- 19 branch points
- 5 endings
- 32 plays
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Content notice (8)
- A repeated day and the loss of the repetitions
- A death in an industrial workplace, referred to and not depicted
- Electrical installation work described in professional rather than instructional terms
- A decade of deception between adults
- An explicit sexual scene between consenting adults, with consent spoken aloud
- A wheelchair user and a care home
- Institutional suppression of a safety finding by procedure rather than by conspiracy
- A signature on a record that cannot be withdrawn
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He Does Not Ask
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Todmorden has one funeral director and he is a woman, then four shops and a crematorium, and the one on Ashfield Road is a second-generation family business that has outlived its founder and both of its working partners.
- ~189 min
- 41609 words
- 14 branch points
- 5 endings
- 32 plays
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Content notice (7)
- the death of a man of nineteen in a road collision, described only as an age, a date and a track that cannot be played
- a man's cremated alive in another man's name and another man's ashes under that man's headstone
- a family of forty-one at a graveside for a man who was not there
- a widow sent a sympathy card every December for seven years about a son who was alive for every one of them
- a record corrected in one place and left wrong in another on purpose
- a man asked a question by a police officer in a churchyard and unable to answer it
- a hard moral choice with five futures and no option that costs nothing
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The Custody of One Box
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Unit 14 of the Lockkeepers self-storage yard on Kelvin Street, Ardwick, is half empty.
- ~217 min
- 47839 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 37 plays
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Content notice (7)
- 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
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The Second Launch Window
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Fennhollow Launch Complex stands at the mouth of the Corrant on a cold coast eleven kilometres from Ellersmere.
- ~219 min
- 48266 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 38 plays
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Content notice (8)
- Descent risk to a crew member stated as a probability and tracked through paperwork
- A launch held or scrubbed in four of the five endings
- A professional recusal and the loss of standing it costs
- A next-of-kin form read literally, including the consequence of leaving a box empty
- A spouse's medical data held outside the medical set and used or withheld
- A described sexual encounter between spouses, with the consent spoken aloud before anything happens
- Explicit language about a body, a marriage, and a person's age
- Alcohol-free domestic detail: boiler services, a cat on a boiler, a broken chair, a solicitor's letter read once
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