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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
- 45 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
- 50 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
- 44 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
- 47 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 Day After The Verdict
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Corwen Lyle is thirty-nine.
- ~346 min
- 76138 words
- 8 branch points
- 5 endings
- 44 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
- 46 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
- 52 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 Orchard of the Glass Comet
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The Halcyon Meridian is a spin-gravity cylinder six hundred and forty metres long and ninety-two metres across, turning three point six times a minute, standing at the fourth Lagrange point of the Anwen system with four thousand one hundred and eighty people inside it and no other reason to exist.
- ~244 min
- 53775 words
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
- 43 plays
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Content notice (2)
- A deliberate, professionally-authored false conclusion assembled out of two figures that are individually correct
- A habitat whose entire atmosphere is one crop, at exactly zero margin, with two and a third days of reserve
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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
- 36 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 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
- 36 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
- 32 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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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 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
- 37 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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The Witness List
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DI Frank Ollerton is fifty-six and has twenty-eight years in Wrenfield CID, eleven of them as a detective inspector, and he owns Unit 4 of the Fall Street lock-ups with the flat above it let to a woman at five hundred and twenty-five pounds a month.
- ~251 min
- 55245 words
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
- 40 plays
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Content notice (8)
- A wrongful conviction and eleven months of imprisonment that are never given back
- A custody suite, a strip search, and the specific detail of a wrist
- A written sexual scene between consenting adults in their fifties
- A professional misconduct hearing and the loss of a career
- A death in 1998, referred to and not depicted
- A housing form that asks about convictions in a tick-box
- A son who will not ask his mother a question
- A name that is said out loud four times in a book and does not repair anything
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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
- 31 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
- 26 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
- 27 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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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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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
- 39 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
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The Second Signature
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Wilhelminakade 214, third floor, Rotterdam.
- ~122 min
- 26887 words
- 13 branch points
- 4 endings
- 32 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
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