The Two Birth Certificates
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
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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