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The Prosecutor Signed It
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Leeds, 2026. The Crown Prosecution Service prosecutes on behalf of the public.
- ~149 min
- 32804 words
- 9 branch points
- 4 endings
- 33 plays
adultcrimeprocedurallegal-dramacrown-prosecutioncare-homesentencingabuse-of-processresettlementleedsinstitutional-ethicsmoral-ambiguitytwo-grammarswritten-adult-intimacyno-fade-to-black
Content notice (10)
- Death by smoke inhalation in an institutional fire, described and not depicted
- Withdrawal of a manslaughter count without a hearing
- A care home operated for profit with residents who died in it
- Fraud worth £412,000 and a perverting-the-course-of-justice count
- A judicial review and a public hearing in open court
- A criminal case certificate surrendered and a career ended
- A marriage under sustained strain
- A man with an ankle tag, a curfew and no accommodation on a fixed date
- Two endings in which a named person is homeless on a stated morning
- Written consensual adult intimacy between a prosecutor and the man she sentenced
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Loop Is the Wedding
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Ashcombe Mill is a four-storey stone corn mill on the north bank of the River Lugg at Twyford, Gloucestershire, built in 1804, sacked mill and three grindstones, ceased commercial milling in 1971, and licensed for civil marriages by Stroud District Council since the eleventh of March 2019.
- ~208 min
- 45945 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 35 plays
time-travelromanceproceduralweddingadultcontemporary-britaingriefconsentliteraryensembleno-rescuelooprecords-and-registriesruralexplicitloss
Content notice (6)
- Time repetition and loss of autobiographical time
- Injury without violence, and a medical record read aloud in a corridor
- A form signed in a room with five people watching
- A public record naming two people
- Explicit consensual adult intimacy, with an in-world stop word that is used
- A death is not depicted and nobody dies; a previous marriage that lasted fourteen months is stated in dialogue
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The House Arrives in March
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A semi-detached house on a cul-de-sac in Ashcombe moved thirty-eight metres along its own row in one night in March 2026.
- ~151 min
- 33326 words
- 12 branch points
- 4 endings
- 35 plays
horrorsuburbandomesticbritishadultexplicitbureaucracyneighboursdomestic-horrorquiet-cosmiccoastal-and-estatelossmarriageworking-classprocedural
Content notice (11)
- domestic horror, not supernatural horror: the threat is administrative and domestic
- descriptive violence is absent; nobody is hurt and nobody dies on any route
- explicit sexual content between two consenting married adults, written, in one scene
- consent is negotiated out loud in clauses and either person can stop it with one word
- the encounter gates no choice and no ending
- grief about a dead parent, a dead spouse and a neighbour who leaves
- social isolation and the loss of community as a subject, not as a threat
- no minors, no minors-coded characters, no ambiguity
- no instructional detail for any procedure, trade or offence
- no slurs are written out anywhere in the text
- all places, companies, offices, forms and people are fictional
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
science fictionoffshorehard SFnuclear engineeringindustrialNorth SeaMATUREexplicitslow burnadultlove storyno betrayalclosed castworkplacetwo personrationed intimacyloss of mission
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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
adultmaturecontemporarycoastalhospitalityproperty-salesmall-businessmarriagebetrayaladult-affairconsent-explicitmotel-and-coastledger-and-inventorymoral-ambiguitystaff-collectiveno-minors
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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
adultmatureprofessional-romancelitigationestate-planningnuptial-settlementconsentcompetitive-courtshipdocumentarymoral-ambiguityworkplaceno-minors
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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Clinic Called in March
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Nell Ardery is 36 and a clinical scientist in molecular diagnostics at Ardwick Diagnostics on the Cavendish Road site, which is where the trust sends anything that has to be answered in eleven working days.
- ~222 min
- 48998 words
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
- 28 plays
adultcontemporarybritishmedical proceduraldomesticmarriagerecords failureprenatal screeningproceduralensemblemultiple endingsslow burn
Content notice (8)
- a first-trimester nuchal translucency measurement of 4.6 millimetres that was never acted on
- a possible genetic or chromosomal condition in a living two-year-old that is never established either way
- a medical records failure affecting six hundred and eleven women
- a referral, blood tests and a wait of eighteen to twenty-four months
- a telephone call read from a script and a batch of letters posted in one morning
- a man who made a risk small in a car park in August 2023 and said nothing about it for four hundred and sixty weeks
- a spreadsheet that ran a marriage and a formula in column ten that could not tell a fact from a stranger
- a daughter's name as the only thing about her that has never been on a form
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
adultmatureexplicitpsychological-proceduralmarriageprofessional-ethicsconsentrecordingcounsellingdomesticleedsinfidelity-adjacentmoral-ambiguitypsychological-thrillerlong-form
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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Salt Widow
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The king died with his heart still in his brother's mouth.
- ~28 min
- 3831 words
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
- 25 plays
dark fantasypolitical dramaerotic tragedyThe tide-kingdom of Vellin, three nights after an unfinished succession
successiondark fantasypolitical intrigueadultgoreexplicit sexsiegecourt intriguetragic romancegame of thrones
Content notice (6)
- graphic violence and gore including ritual cannibalism
- explicit sex used as politics and as desire
- pregnancy
- coercion and marital rape implication
- execution, hamstringing, throat-cutting
- siege, drowning, mass death
· audio review pending
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