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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
- 20 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
- 24 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
- 44 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
- 44 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
- 46 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
- 41 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
- 46 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
- 41 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 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
- 54 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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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
- 31 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
- 36 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 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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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 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
- 28 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 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
- 23 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
- 24 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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