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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
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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 Second Chance Is a Room
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Hoddensett is a limestone village of three hundred and forty people above Settle in the North Yorkshire Wolds, with one Co-op and post office counter, one pub, a bus to Settle at 07:14 and 13:40, and one belief that everybody there can state in a single sentence and nobody will state twice.
- ~291 min
- 64101 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 48 plays
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Content notice (9)
- infantil loss referred to as a height chart and an unfilled line; no child is depicted or described
- coercive and loving marital conflict, including a spouse saying something cruel to win an argument
- emotional manipulation by a well-meaning third party
- public professional humiliation and a career consequence
- a statutory declaration the protagonist knows to be arguable
- explicit sexual content between consenting adults
- body and hair description in an explicit scene
- an ending that withholds resolution on the central question
- no death, no injury, no violence that lands
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The Turbine by the Sea
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Belver Head is fifty-one metres of granite in Cornwall with a 4.
- ~117 min
- 25910 words
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
- 52 plays
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Content notice (8)
- Falsified safety record and a countersignature given 340 times
- Use of a partner's undiagnosed shoulder as a reason to keep her in place
- Written explicit sexual content between two consenting adults in a cold loft
- A recorder that has been capturing a room since 1976
- A drowning referenced but not depicted
- Regulatory investigation and withdrawal of a professional authorisation
- An implication of professional complicity by omission since 1988
- A hard moral choice with no option that undoes the damage
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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
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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
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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
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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 Back Office Inventory
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The Marram is a forty-one-room hotel on Marine Parade in Brinmouth, a coast road town on the north coast where the population went from 4,180 in 2015 to 2,940 in 2024 and the season has stopped being a season.
- ~167 min
- 36790 words
- 12 branch points
- 5 endings
- 24 plays
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Content notice (8)
- Sale and loss of an inherited business
- A marriage of nine years ending over money that is not coming back
- An adult affair, written in full, between two adults who agreed what they want and what stops it out loud
- A man being right about half of what he says in a room with a sea view
- Eleven people told about their jobs by somebody else
- A public accusation in a small professional trade
- A woman describing her own failure accurately to the man it concerns
- A building converted to flats and a name taken off a sea front
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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
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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
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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
- 24 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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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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In Amberthwaite, magic is not cast.
- ~51 min
- 11408 words
- 6 branch points
- 4 endings
- 27 plays
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Content notice (8)
- A minor's signature taken in an emergency and relied on for four years
- Institutional coercion by procedure rather than by force
- A witness who cannot afford to withdraw consent
- A job that cannot be declined and cannot be left
- Public naming of private financial obligation
- Hunger written as money, fees and wages
- Loss of irreplaceable records, described without injury
- Chosen adult company, non-sexual, bounded, easy to decline
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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
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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
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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
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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
- 32 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
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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
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The Windward Reach is a hard western coast of sea stacks and low cliffs, fourteen miles long, with four lamps burning on it in a chain and four families who have kept them for six generations.
- ~56 min
- 12346 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 28 plays
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Content notice (7)
- Destructive magic with a named, unrefusable price
- Loss of a family word and a family name
- Institutional habit of thirty-one years examined in a public meeting
- A boat and a season of work lost, described
- One branch spends a year of another living person's life
- Sleet, gale, and a winter deadline
- Chosen adult company, non-sexual, nothing depicted
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Ashcombe keeps its bees on a south wall above the low orchards, and a hive that one family has tended for six generations becomes a small god with a job, and the job is the orchard.
- ~16 min
- 3637 words
- 2 branch points
- 3 endings
- 34 plays
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Content notice (7)
- An unpaid debt owed to a small god
- A family that read a contract wrongly, then rightly
- A sixteen-year-old worker, never a romantic interest
- Institutional pressure and a collector's office
- A blight year and a lost crop
- A bound four-year labour term with no exit
- A permanently unanswerable question
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The Selvage Coast is a long run of chalk and timber, and every chart drawn of it is a promise the world has to keep: surveyed, fair-copied by an engraver who never saw the field book, signed by two hands, and sealed.
- ~50 min
- 11123 words
- 6 branch points
- 4 endings
- 29 plays
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Content notice (8)
- A false sealed chart and a record that is wrong on purpose for twenty years
- Coercion through a job, a signature, a wage account, and other people's licences
- Named self-interest and a career ambition pursued against the public record
- Relocation of four hundred and six people in the rain
- Nineteen deaths, described and counted, including two named adults
- A career-ending disclosure and a resigned commission
- Loss of a harbour's legal position and of two hundred and eleven men's work
- Chosen adult company, non-sexual, bounded, fades before anything is depicted
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In Ashcombe, an oath is not a promise.
- ~34 min
- 7664 words
- 4 branch points
- 4 endings
- 30 plays
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Content notice (6)
- Coerced or uninformed labour used as a debt instrument
- Institutional fraud in a household's books
- Self-harm and self-destruction proposed as a solution
- A public reading of a private roll
- Reported deaths of supporting characters, not depicted
- A character who has never once been asked and never says so
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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
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Marrowgate is a walled city cut into seven terraces, and each terrace holds sixteen named doors that the city keeps locked as promises.
- ~26 min
- 5886 words
- 4 branch points
- 4 endings
- 53 plays
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Content notice (6)
- Institutional negligence and an uninspected record
- Nine years of confinement in a room nine feet by one, described without injury
- A threatened demolition of an occupied room
- A clock of eleven days and a hard moral choice with no clean option
- A career and a stipend placed at risk
- A dated mention of an adult's action as a minor, not depicted
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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
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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
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