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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
gothicromanceadult-intimacybody-horrortidal-islandweddingsurgicalslow-burnconsentmaturebooktokhebrideshaunted-housebride
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
horrorromanceadult-intimacyapocalypseend-of-worlddating-simfishing-townflooddrownedbody-horrorswitchboardconsentmaturebooktokgothic
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
science-fictionromanceadult-intimacyalienmonster-romanceice-moonstrandedslow-burnsurvivalfirst-contactconsentmaturebooktokspace
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 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
matureadults-onlycrimemurder-trialenglish-crown-courtproceduralmarriageno-secret-no-betrayaldomesticconsentinstitutionalrestrained-procedural-craft
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
matureadults-onlyexplicitscience-fictionspeculative-procedurenear-futuremarriageconsentdurable-relationshiplegal-proceduraldomesticlong-formdialogue-ledbritish
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
matureadults-onlytime-travelscience-fictionradio-astronomyinstitutional-proceduralconsentmemory-and-identityclosure-and-redundancylove-storymoral-ambiguitydial-dialect-procedural
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 Cartographer's Sleeper
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The new route only appears on the maps of people who have stopped planning to leave.
- ~35 min
- 3985 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 40 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe autumn of 1964, in the invented border March of Ordale
adult fantasycartographyborderlandsworkplace dramaromanceconsentpublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- career displacement
- fear of permanence
- family obligation
- coercive licensing rules
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Tunnel of Borrowed Light
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The tunnel stays bright only while the dark belongs to someone else.
- ~35 min
- 4268 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 41 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe winter of 1981, in the invented coastal road tunnel district of Ander Senn
adult fantasyroad tunnelworkplace dramaromanceconsentdebtpublic recordslabor exploitationmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- coercive bargains
- grief
- labor exploitation
- surveillance through surrendered shadows
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Clockmaker's Platform
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Every clock in the terminal agrees. None of them is honest.
- ~32 min
- 2924 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 42 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancecivic mysteryThe autumn timetable change of 1979, in the invented rail city of Tolbury
adult fantasycivic infrastructurerailway stationworkplace dramaromanceconsentevidencepublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- coerced departures and legal pressure
- institutional surveillance of commuters
- relationship mistrust and a deliberate lie
- tense adult romance
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no minors
- no real-person likeness or voice
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Nightwatch Locomotive
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Aid first, record after, and nothing promised that was not asked for.
- ~35 min
- 3165 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 46 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe winter of 1981, on the fictional Cairn line in the invented mountain district of Sarrow Vale
adult fantasymountain railwayworkplace dramaromanceconsentmutual aidpublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (9)
- adult-only confirmation
- injury aftermath without graphic detail
- grief
- emergency scarcity
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
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The Borrowed Platform
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The platform is the address, and the address is the only thing they cannot take.
- ~35 min
- 3951 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 23 plays
adult dramacivic romanceworkplace dramaliterary fictionThe winter of 1979, in the invented river city of Ashlade
adult dramarailwaycivic architectureromanceconsenthousingpublic recordsinstitutional neglectsecond chancebranching
Content notice (11)
- adult-only confirmation at the start
- housing loss and displacement
- institutional neglect by a city works department
- separation and renegotiation of an adult marriage
- grief over a parent and an inherited obligation
- adult relationship tension
- gentle adult intimacy that cuts away
- no explicit content of any kind
- no unclothed characters
- no one under eighteen is depicted
- no voice or likeness taken from any real individual
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The Copper Warning
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The message is in her own hand, and it is dated eleven days from tonight.
- ~35 min
- 2976 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 23 plays
adult contemporaryworkplace dramaromancelight speculative mysteryThe autumn rains of 1961, in the invented industrial river city of Ansel Water
adult contemporaryindustrial cityworkplace dramaromanceconsentfatepublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- accident threat, implied not depicted
- workplace blame
- institutional cover-up
- fate imagery
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
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The Glassmaker's Passenger
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The line belongs to the district only when every name in it can say yes.
- ~35 min
- 3446 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 30 plays
adult fantasyindustrial dramaromancefolk mysteryThe winter of 1981, in the invented enclosed glassworks district of Annis Furnace
adult fantasyglassworks districtindustrial dramaromanceconsenttestimonycooperative ownershipmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (9)
- adult-only confirmation
- industrial exploitation
- coercive surveillance
- workplace injury and entrapment
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
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The Station of Lost Direction
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A train arrives only after you admit you are lost.
- ~35 min
- 4405 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 28 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe late autumn of 1981, in the invented upland interchange of Kestrel Halt
adult fantasymountain railwayworkplace dramaromanceconsentgriefmaps and recordsbranchingchosen home
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- coercive station authority
- pressured signatures
- grief and family obligation
- displacement
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
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The Last Carriage Museum
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The carriage ran to six recorded stops. The panel has room for seven.
- ~35 min
- 5035 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 26 plays
adult dramaworkplace dramaromancehistorical mysteryThe late 1980s and the present day, in the invented national transport museum of Harrowmead
adult dramamuseumrailway historywar aftermathromanceconsentpublic memorygriefbranchingsecond chance
Content notice (9)
- adult-only confirmation
- war aftermath and displacement
- grief and delayed mourning
- public memory and contested records
- separation and adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness or voice
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The Quarry of Borrowed Names
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The line reopens only when no worker pays with their name.
- ~35 min
- 2510 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 33 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe winter of 1978, in the invented northern quarry district of Veyr
adult fantasywinter railwayworkplace dramaromanceconsentevidencepublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (9)
- adult-only confirmation
- coercive institutions
- threatened name-transfer
- workplace danger
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending
Somebody would remember. That is the whole of it.
- ~210 min
- 40270 words
- 16 branch points
- 6 endings
- 25 plays
erotic noiradult dramapsychological thrillerliterary fictionCallis, 4 to 15 October 2026
adult dramaerotic noirmurder mysterytheatreconsentjealousyprofessional ruinpolice proceduralliterary fictionmoral ambiguity
Content notice (10)
- murder and a graphic death scene
- blood and a wound to the head
- explicit sexual content between consenting adults
- a director's coercive sexual conduct with cast members
- jealousy and a lie told to protect somebody
- police investigation and interrogation
- professional and criminal accusation
- racism shown as institutional sidelining
- death of a colleague and grief
- the destruction of a career
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The Second Hut on Chkhutnieri
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A valley stayed alive on a number nobody wrote down. She is the only one who can end it.
- ~190 min
- 56884 words
- 19 branch points
- 5 endings
- 29 plays
literary fictionadult dramaproceduraltragedyUpper Svaneti, Georgia, August to November 2026
adult dramaliterary fictionrural proceduralconsentdocuments and recordsinherited arrangementland rightsgriefmoral ambiguity
Content notice (7)
- livestock mortality on a mountain pass, one animal described going over an edge
- official documents, a public meeting, land deregistration and a named criminal complaint
- a woman under institutional pressure to sign a number
- consensual adult intimacy written on the page, with the consent spoken aloud
- an envelope of unlabelled money received and never spent
- prejudice against a family whose name is not on a register
- an animal named and counted as a person is mourned
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The Overrun
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The counter is always right. So something came in that nobody received.
- ~180 min
- 32639 words
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
- 30 plays
literary fictionadult dramaindustrialtragedyBury, November to December 2025
adult dramaindustrial workplaceproceduralliterary fictionslow-burn romanceinstitutional failurefinancial collapseredundancymoral ambiguitytragedyconsentworkplace drama
Content notice (3)
- Financial loss, redundancy, institutional complicity in a purchase, and the sale of a working life at a bad price.
- Alcohol, and two decades of not saying a thing.
- No slurs are written out. Bigotry shows through behaviour and consequence.
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
matureadults-onlyscience-fictionshared-consciousnessbureaucracylegal-proceduralconsentmarriagelossno-secret-no-betrayalinstitutional-ethics
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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
matureadults-onlyscience-fictionaerospacelaunch-proceduralmarriagecountdowninstitutional-ethicsdescriptors-and-risk-figuresconsentmoral-ambiguityno-secret-no-betrayal
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
· 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
- 34 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
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
time-loopscience-fictionromanceconsenttime-travellabourwalesindustrialdocumentarymatureadult-intimacymelancholypsychological-horrorsmall-cast
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
· 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
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