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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 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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Six adults, one free weekend, one working flashlight each, and a chain on the gate that somebody put there from the outside.
- ~600 min
- 111596 words
- 39 branch points
- 5 endings
- 37 plays
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Content notice (12)
- all characters are adults, with stated ages
- graphic violence, a massacre, and blood
- a nine-year-old camper killed in 2011 and named as dead
- human remains recovered from a burned cabin in April 2015
- a service weapon discharged inside a house
- explicit sexual content between adults
- consent spoken aloud by both, and one stop honoured
- sex that is written and is never a reward
- a knife
- stalking, restraint, and a woman held still in a reservoir at night
- bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence
- no slurs are written out
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The Year He Was There
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The Wrekin Deep is a decommissioned stratiform lead-zinc mine on the A5 near Llantwitau, taken on lease in 2021 by a small consortium that runs one machine a thousand one hundred and twenty metres down.
- ~160 min
- 35290 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 34 plays
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Content notice (11)
- Coercive control within a marriage
- Memory loss and the loss of a person's own history
- An industrial accident and its concealment
- A financial deception against a family that is still paying for it
- A non-consensual restraint, described in the past tense
- Explicit sexual content between spouses, stopping on a spoken word
- Self-harm ideation by a protagonist, stated and refused
- A legal signature that cannot be withdrawn
- Medical procedures described in a mine chamber and a surgery
- A hard moral set of choices with no option that does not cost something
- Death of named characters before and off the page
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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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She Has Been Here Before
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Ashlade Point is a decommissioning site on the Cumbrian coast, a Magnox station that stopped making electricity in 1995 and has been stopping ever since, and Mairi Skene, 34, is its document controller.
- ~230 min
- 50606 words
- 19 branch points
- 5 endings
- 31 plays
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Content notice (8)
- A repeated day and the loss of the repetitions
- A death in an industrial workplace, referred to and not depicted
- Electrical installation work described in professional rather than instructional terms
- A decade of deception between adults
- An explicit sexual scene between consenting adults, with consent spoken aloud
- A wheelchair user and a care home
- Institutional suppression of a safety finding by procedure rather than by conspiracy
- A signature on a record that cannot be withdrawn
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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
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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
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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 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 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
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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
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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 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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Rank Fourteen
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Dane Okonjo is 44 and has driven the night rank outside Tarncaster railway station for nine years.
- ~214 min
- 47135 words
- 11 branch points
- 4 endings
- 24 plays
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Content notice (5)
- a care home resident with vascular dementia and a history of alcohol-related brain injury
- epilepsy and a stoppd anticonvulsant; a patient having seizures is described and not depicted
- occupational and professional disciplinary procedure
- a university fitness to practise procedure
- alcohol use is present as a fact about a diagnosis and a caution, and is not described
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The Understudy Owns the Room
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The Rodliffe is a red-brick municipal theatre in Netherfold with six hundred and forty seats and one stage, and *The Glass Widow* by Irena Kovács has been in rehearsal there since the eighth of September.
- ~179 min
- 39486 words
- 9 branch points
- 4 endings
- 23 plays
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Content notice (8)
- An extra-marital relationship of eight months between a married man and another man's wife
- A second relationship by the same woman, of four months, with the director of the same production
- A marriage held together for eleven weeks by a document and a spreadsheet
- An adult man's career ended by a growth on his vocal fold and by a contract clause
- A professional disagreement about a go-on, a two-hour notice clause, and a twenty-minute hold rule
- A production cancelled in one of four futures
- Explicit sexual content between adults, with consent and limits stated out loud before anything happens
- A word used as a stop during a performance, in front of an audience
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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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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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