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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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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 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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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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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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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
- 34 plays
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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
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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
- 42 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 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 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 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 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 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
- 27 plays
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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
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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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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
- 28 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
- 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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Fourteen Hours of Snow
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Wetterstation Kaltbrunn stands at 2,940 metres on the Anzelgrat, a two-room manned weather station with one diesel heater, one generator, and a radio that draws its current from the same machine as the heat.
- ~230 min
- 50662 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 27 plays
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Content notice (4)
- Death of a named adult woman at 34, off-page and reported.
- A wrongful professional call with a named institution, a named file, and a closed inquiry.
- Grief kept at a remove, and two adults who cannot say the sentence for four hours.
- Frostbite and the permanent loss of the ends of two fingers.
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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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
In Pell, a market village of four hundred and six people on the River Wray, the magic is in the baking.
- ~9 min
- 2061 words
- 2 branch points
- 3 endings
- 25 plays
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Content notice (5)
- A four-year debt of four coppers a day, kept in a tin and never mentioned
- A mother's departure and a shop bought out from under a girl of fourteen
- A customer who stopped coming because she got a job, and the ordinary shame of it
- A crumb read aloud in a market square with a name attached
- A hard moral choice that no option resolves
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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