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The Resonance
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One thousand one hundred and seventy-six hours of oxygen, forty-nine days of relief, and the one thing she never asked the alien keeping them all alive.
- ~115 min
- 25447 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 45 plays
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Content notice (5)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a hard survival deadline: a finite oxygen reserve, a ration shortfall, and a nine day gap before relief
- a bounty placed on a sentient species by a human colony
- isolation, confinement, and a body mark that does not fade
- a scientist falsifying a research record
· art review pending · audio review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
- 51 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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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
- 45 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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
- 53 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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Bridge Is Rated For Forty
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The Nethra Viaduct carries four lanes and a footway 212 metres over the tidal River Kell, eleven weeks and three days from a vote that will certify it for another eleven years without anybody standing on it.
- ~214 min
- 47222 words
- 10 branch points
- 4 endings
- 36 plays
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Content notice (5)
- A bridge that is over its limit and is signed off anyway.
- A falsified or never-verified model input, and a data science ticket closed as expected drift.
- Weight restriction, road diversion, freight cost, and two small businesses closing.
- A person resigning by email and a professional reputation ending in a file.
- A woman saying no to something she wanted, and the no being correct.
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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
- 32 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
- 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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Every Tuesday for Four Years
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Pendraig Time Standards Laboratory is sixty-one metres into a disused slate quarry under the valley at Llandysul, in Ceredigion, and it holds the national secondary time standard, a caesium fountain clock, a hydrogen maser and one hydrogen maser's worth of heat.
- ~171 min
- 37828 words
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
- 36 plays
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Content notice (7)
- the implied withdrawal of consent and its consequences, written on the page
- a relationship loss described directly, without softening
- no minors and no minors-coded characters
- no violence and no injury
- no drug use
- no slurs written out; bigotry shown only through behaviour and consequence
- explicit adult intimacy between consenting adults only
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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