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The Weight on the Form
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Brayfold is a market town of nine thousand two hundred people on the east bank of the Foss, forty-one miles from anywhere that has a hospital with a name.
- ~300 min
- 66086 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 43 plays
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Content notice (6)
- illness, a delayed diagnosis, and administrative failure rather than an assailant
- a funeral trade depicted in working detail, including a cold room, a plate scale, and four hundred and twelve funerals
- an obsession with weight, and a protagonist who has entered figures in a book without verifying them
- complicity that is total and spoken about openly, in which every character says what they did
- explicit adult intimacy between a husband and wife of twenty-four years, in the room where the work is done
- a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing
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The Tenth Suspension
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Halvard B is a surface maintenance platform on the Ravn Field, 214 km west of Stavanger in the Norwegian sector, holding three subsea wellheads and a manifold in service through the winter gas nomination.
- ~236 min
- 52060 words
- 8 branch points
- 5 endings
- 34 plays
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Content notice (8)
- a workplace ration of intimacy between two colleagues, agreed out loud in the room and scheduled on a public whiteboard
- an explicit written adult sexual encounter at twenty past four in the morning, inside an engineering argument
- a professional relationship destroyed between two people who were both good at the job, in the open, with no betrayal
- the loss of a shared project, a subsea field, to a vibration figure that nobody could have argued with
- a reactor operated outside its certified envelope, and the procedural consequences of doing so
- institutional indifference expressed as procedure: a cancelled core, an expired certificate, a berth left unallocated
- a medical drug count performed in public, and a recompression chamber booked for a reason nobody states
- a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing
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Every Tuesday for Four Years
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Pendraig Time Standards Laboratory is sixty-one metres into a disused slate quarry under the valley at Llandysul, in Ceredigion, and it holds the national secondary time standard, a caesium fountain clock, a hydrogen maser and one hydrogen maser's worth of heat.
- ~171 min
- 37828 words
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
- 36 plays
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Content notice (7)
- the implied withdrawal of consent and its consequences, written on the page
- a relationship loss described directly, without softening
- no minors and no minors-coded characters
- no violence and no injury
- no drug use
- no slurs written out; bigotry shown only through behaviour and consequence
- explicit adult intimacy between consenting adults only
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The Back Office Inventory
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The Marram is a forty-one-room hotel on Marine Parade in Brinmouth, a coast road town on the north coast where the population went from 4,180 in 2015 to 2,940 in 2024 and the season has stopped being a season.
- ~167 min
- 36790 words
- 12 branch points
- 5 endings
- 24 plays
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Content notice (8)
- Sale and loss of an inherited business
- A marriage of nine years ending over money that is not coming back
- An adult affair, written in full, between two adults who agreed what they want and what stops it out loud
- A man being right about half of what he says in a room with a sea view
- Eleven people told about their jobs by somebody else
- A public accusation in a small professional trade
- A woman describing her own failure accurately to the man it concerns
- A building converted to flats and a name taken off a sea front
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The Widow Objects
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Marrow Grange is a stone house with fourteen bedrooms off the main corridor and a kitchen built in 1861 that has never once been remodelled.
- ~194 min
- 42784 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 29 plays
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Content notice (8)
- the death of a spouse, described from a post-mortem report and from what people said afterwards
- grief, prolonged, in a house with fourteen bedrooms
- a body pledged as security for a debt by a deed its subject drafted herself
- a marriage recorded as a compliance obligation and read aloud to strangers
- public disclosure of an intimate private record
- a professional and financial ruin that is not prevented
- explicit adult intimacy between a widow and a man who acts for the people she owes
- a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing
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The Partner Who Left A Draft
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Iona Braithwaite, 41, is a litigation partner at Kessel Blythe LLP, a firm of fifty-eight fee earners on the third floor of Ardleigh House in Merevale, and the lead on *Fenn v Rundle Bank plc*: three thousand nine hundred and four members, two hundred and twelve million four hundred thousand pounds,
- ~158 min
- 34869 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 26 plays
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Content notice (7)
- A will that disinherits the woman who made it
- A nuptial settlement made without independent advice
- Professional falsification of document authorship
- A deleted or lost career and a dissolved partnership
- A member of the public reading private words in open court
- Sex between two consenting adults, written, including a standing order about stopping that is renegotiated
- A group of 3,904 people paying more because of a private decision
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The Two Birth Certificates
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Marrow Quay is an estuary town of eleven thousand people, a register office on Quay Street, a depot at Ashgrove where carriage doors are fitted, and a flat at number four on Wren Court with a kitchen that is the only warm room in it.
- ~406 min
- 89390 words
- 22 branch points
- 5 endings
- 39 plays
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Content notice (8)
- A false civil registration and a declaration of truth made in a prescribed form in 2014
- A marriage that is annulled on paper and cannot be copied in any future
- A woman's body altered by surgery at 36 and a loss of a pregnancy that never happened
- The death of a woman of 71 in Lagos, described in a letter and not depicted
- Vascular dementia and a left-sided stroke in a woman of 74, and her giving evidence by video link in court
- A fire in a registry annex in 1994 that destroyed six thousand registrations and was never reported
- A public correction published as item 41 of a monthly notice, and a stranger's search in Lagos
- Financial distress, a house sold, and a credit union emptied
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The Last Bus to Saffron Bay
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A route is kept alive for thirty-nine years by people who are not paid to keep it alive, and the only way to pay the debt is to destroy it.
- ~120 min
- 19759 words
- 15 branch points
- 4 endings
- 32 plays
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Content notice (2)
- Adults only, 17+
- No sexual content, no violence, no illness, no death, no courtroom, no romance
The Four Hundred Cover
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Standing is a restaurant in a converted 1908 cold store on Finkle Street in Kingston upon Hull.
- ~177 min
- 38976 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 27 plays
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Content notice (5)
- A six-year financial arrangement entered into without consent and sustained by omission
- A partnership and a reputation withdrawn for something the protagonist said out loud
- A career ending and a colleague's resignation-threat described in an office
- A public reading of a private bank line in front of twenty-nine staff
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that carries the damage rather than preventing it
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The Consent Order
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In England and Wales you cannot end a marriage quietly.
- ~227 min
- 49973 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 28 plays
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Content notice (8)
- Domestic violence that is not reported to the police and never is
- A court finding about a hand on a throat, entered in a public document
- A permanent legal restraint on sexual relations between spouses, agreed to in advance
- Sexual content between adults, with consent stated aloud, in a house that is being emptied
- A professional conduct finding and a partnership put under review
- A judgment and a register entry that are public and permanent
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that does the damage
- A marriage that continues after a document has ended it
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The Witness Was in the House
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No. 3 Quarry Bank is a 1936 semi-detached house in Cranmere, Worcestershire, with a yard eleven metres deep and a brick wall just over a metre high.
- ~227 min
- 49945 words
- 8 branch points
- 5 endings
- 30 plays
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Content notice (7)
- A death by blunt force to the head, referred to, with no method depicted and no injury described
- A body in a house, a grey rug with a fringe, and a mortuary van on a Friday afternoon
- A police interview, a caution, a video recording, and the reader's own words read back to them
- Insomnia, a two-week rotation break, and a taped hand described on the page
- A woman destroys two letters written by a frightened man at 04:44 and cannot undo it
- Sexual content between two adults in a bed that becomes an exhibit, with consent stated aloud and either able to stop
- Bigotry as behaviour: an assumption about a nationality, a cash rent, and a man who cooks for other people
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Rank Fourteen
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Dane Okonjo is 44 and has driven the night rank outside Tarncaster railway station for nine years.
- ~214 min
- 47135 words
- 11 branch points
- 4 endings
- 24 plays
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Content notice (5)
- a care home resident with vascular dementia and a history of alcohol-related brain injury
- epilepsy and a stoppd anticonvulsant; a patient having seizures is described and not depicted
- occupational and professional disciplinary procedure
- a university fitness to practise procedure
- alcohol use is present as a fact about a diagnosis and a caution, and is not described
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The Understudy Owns the Room
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The Rodliffe is a red-brick municipal theatre in Netherfold with six hundred and forty seats and one stage, and *The Glass Widow* by Irena Kovács has been in rehearsal there since the eighth of September.
- ~179 min
- 39486 words
- 9 branch points
- 4 endings
- 23 plays
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Content notice (8)
- An extra-marital relationship of eight months between a married man and another man's wife
- A second relationship by the same woman, of four months, with the director of the same production
- A marriage held together for eleven weeks by a document and a spreadsheet
- An adult man's career ended by a growth on his vocal fold and by a contract clause
- A professional disagreement about a go-on, a two-hour notice clause, and a twenty-minute hold rule
- A production cancelled in one of four futures
- Explicit sexual content between adults, with consent and limits stated out loud before anything happens
- A word used as a stop during a performance, in front of an audience
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The House With Someone In It
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Ilse Baradi is forty-four and runs the duty rota at the Netherfield Health Centre on Barrow Lane, which means that the whole of her working life is the art of writing down who will be where, and at what hour, in advance.
- ~114 min
- 25224 words
- 13 branch points
- 5 endings
- 24 plays
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Content notice (9)
- An adult family member unpaid for nine years and unnamed in a will
- A will re-cut on a telephone in nineteen minutes, and the witness clause
- Financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, named in exact money
- The threat and reality of a care assessment and a care plan
- Adult sexual content between spouses, conducted in a house with a third adult in it
- A marriage of practical reasons hiding an unreconciled death from 2015
- A death described from the room it happened in
- A hard moral choice that no option resolves
- A romantic climax that is used as leverage and named as such afterwards
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The Syllabus She Built
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Ashgrove University sits in Marchmont on a parkland campus built in 1974 and repaired ever since.
- ~233 min
- 51349 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 25 plays
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Content notice (9)
- An academic misconduct complaint upheld on procedural grounds
- A career suspended and a fitness to practise referral
- A first-year postgraduate research placement lost by a young man
- A plagiarism finding against a student who was never told
- Deliberate omission from a disclosure document
- Institutional silence and small-kindedness as concealment
- An adult sexual relationship between colleagues, written explicitly
- Financial strain and family debt
- Hard moral choices that no option resolves
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What the Recording Catches
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Fennimore Road in Headingley, Leeds, has a bathroom-tile shop on the ground floor and a two-room counselling practice above it, and Nell Ardery has recorded every single session that has ever been held in those two rooms.
- ~189 min
- 41707 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 29 plays
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Content notice (8)
- A husband describing his wife in the third person, at length, to another person, on a recording
- Infidelity-adjacent: a professional relationship that is not a sexual relationship but is not nothing
- Explicit adult sexual content, written in full, on a recording and in a room
- A professional ethics disclosure and the loss of a registration
- A partnership dissolved and a twenty-two-year friendship ended
- A client's recorded privacy entering a legal disclosure schedule
- A file destroyed to prevent a disclosure, which cannot be undone
- The reader's own act of listening to a recording is the premise and is never named
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The Address on the Form
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Carys Ollerton, 41, has been the senior clerk of the family division of Denby County Court for four years and a clerk in that building for eleven.
- ~466 min
- 102604 words
- 10 branch points
- 4 endings
- 40 plays
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Content notice (8)
- A removal direction sought against a mother and upheld in three of the four futures
- Institutional deportation described from a notice, a determination, and an airport at dawn
- A woman of twenty-one who is the subject of a court application and is not a party to it
- A professional conduct referral and a two-year loss of a clerk's certificate
- A marriage of nine years that ends in three of the four futures
- A daughter who does not return in two of the four futures
- A hearing aid, a mould, and a cost of a hundred and ninety-five pounds
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that does the damage
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Second Signature
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Wilhelminakade 214, third floor, Rotterdam.
- ~122 min
- 26887 words
- 13 branch points
- 4 endings
- 33 plays
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Content notice (6)
- A notarial act that is wrong in one field and cannot be withdrawn, corrected, or annotated by anybody afterwards
- A widow who is owed money and is not paid, in every route
- A boy of sixteen who wrote his name at the top of a form; he is not a character, is not present, and is not sexualised
- A fifteen-year deception inside a marriage, about a rope and a scar rather than about a person
- A woman's account of her own professional failure read out on a record and against her will
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that does the damage
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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