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The Prosecutor Signed It
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Leeds, 2026. The Crown Prosecution Service prosecutes on behalf of the public.
- ~149 min
- 32804 words
- 9 branch points
- 4 endings
- 33 plays
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Content notice (10)
- Death by smoke inhalation in an institutional fire, described and not depicted
- Withdrawal of a manslaughter count without a hearing
- A care home operated for profit with residents who died in it
- Fraud worth £412,000 and a perverting-the-course-of-justice count
- A judicial review and a public hearing in open court
- A criminal case certificate surrendered and a career ended
- A marriage under sustained strain
- A man with an ankle tag, a curfew and no accommodation on a fixed date
- Two endings in which a named person is homeless on a stated morning
- Written consensual adult intimacy between a prosecutor and the man she sentenced
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
- 33 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
· 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
- 38 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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
- 25 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 Aldermere Valley is eleven miles long with one road in and no road out, and eleven small settlements in it, and at the middle of the valley, in the village of Ellet, there is a press that prints four pages every twelve days.
- ~43 min
- 9636 words
- 4 branch points
- 4 endings
- 37 plays
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Content notice (12)
- A true report that functions as a lie
- A man who destroys himself on purpose
- Three men alive behind a wall, described as lost
- A request that a living man be printed dead
- A fourth person who knows and says nothing
- A false report that stopped a killing
- A death following a report that no man was hurt
- A mill closed and a village emptied by a printed line
- A house burned over a man who was not in it
- Detention on a priest's word
- Coercion by custom and by reputation
- Chosen adult company, non-sexual, fades before anything is depicted
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Ostrow is a river capital, and its Civic Collection is a long low yellow-brick building in the Marsch Park that was a customs house until 1937.
- ~31 min
- 7027 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 31 plays
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Content notice (5)
- A building begun and never finished
- A work site that failed under a boy at work
- Institutional pressure and a public committee
- A name removed from a public record in 1981
- A hard moral choice that no option resolves
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
In the Furnace Marches, war is not a spell.
- ~44 min
- 9816 words
- 4 branch points
- 4 endings
- 25 plays
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Content notice (8)
- Inherited debt and coerced labour
- A magic system that draws years off a named person's life
- Institutional pressure and a public admission of fraud
- A death from occupational fume, reported
- War casualties, reported as a figure
- Mass layoff, lost wages, and a winter in one ending
- A final choice that strands the protagonist in her own body or her own house
- Chosen adult company, non-sexual, fades before anything is depicted
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Bellwether is a market town of eleven thousand on a slow brown river, with a north ward, a river gate, and a bell tower whose hours mark the time the ward is shut.
- ~37 min
- 8237 words
- 4 branch points
- 4 endings
- 26 plays
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Content notice (7)
- Quarantine and enforced confinement
- Hunger and food rationing
- Mass civic distrust and a shared false agreement
- A public record used to erase a group
- Institutional pressure and a public vote
- A hard moral choice that no option resolves
- Illness described without any symptom being visible
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Carrow is a wool village of thirty-nine houses on a ridge, with one tower, one bell, and one noon a day.
- ~11 min
- 2528 words
- 2 branch points
- 3 endings
- 33 plays
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Content notice (9)
- death of a child
- parental grief
- child death, non-graphic
- village guilt
- blame without malice
- mourning
- cold, dark winter setting
- no romance
- no sexual content
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
In Gallowmere, a northern town on the trade road, a body is a document.
- ~57 min
- 12723 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 31 plays
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Content notice (7)
- Death and burial described at trade level
- Burned remains and their recovery
- A house fire with six adult deaths
- Financial ruin of four households
- Self-destruction offered and declined aloud
- Institutional pressure and a public naming
- A hard moral choice with no clean option
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Low Wetlands are a drowned valley of causeways and peat-cut islands, and the world took the water out of them forty years ago.
- ~44 min
- 9795 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 31 plays
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Content notice (7)
- Inherited obligation and a lapsed civic right
- Unpaid and uncounted labour
- Institutional closure of a service and a public list of places that stopped asking
- Property loss: a third of a peat island and a standing ground
- Financial loss for a work crew of two pence a load
- A hard moral choice that no option resolves
- Chosen adult company, non-sexual, bounded, fades before anything is depicted
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Verrin Hollow is a hill town built around a wizard's glasshouse: one long room under a pitched glass roof, two hundred and forty feet from the fire wall to the cold end, standing on the shoulder above the town where the hill gives up and the streets stop.
- ~5 min
- 1257 words
- 2 branch points
- 3 endings
- 26 plays
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Content notice (5)
- A falsified official record and a cut page in a bound ledger
- Institutional pressure and an admission of wrongdoing
- A hard moral choice that no option resolves
- Labour conditions and a rota with a named person on it
- A child character, non-sexualised and in no adult role
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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