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He Does Not Ask
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Todmorden has one funeral director and he is a woman, then four shops and a crematorium, and the one on Ashfield Road is a second-generation family business that has outlived its founder and both of its working partners.
- ~189 min
- 41609 words
- 14 branch points
- 5 endings
- 31 plays
horrorfuneral-tradeenglandcountydocumentaryquiet-tensefamily-businesssmall-towngriefsecretsmutematureadult-intimacymale-maleledger
Content notice (7)
- the death of a man of nineteen in a road collision, described only as an age, a date and a track that cannot be played
- a man's cremated alive in another man's name and another man's ashes under that man's headstone
- a family of forty-one at a graveside for a man who was not there
- a widow sent a sympathy card every December for seven years about a son who was alive for every one of them
- a record corrected in one place and left wrong in another on purpose
- a man asked a question by a police officer in a churchyard and unable to answer it
- a hard moral choice with five futures and no option that costs nothing
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Weight on the Form
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Brayfold is a market town of nine thousand two hundred people on the east bank of the Foss, forty-one miles from anywhere that has a hospital with a name.
- ~300 min
- 66086 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 43 plays
horrorfolk-rulefuneral-trademarriagesmall-townbureaucracycounty-englanddocumentarymatureadult-intimacyquiet-tensedomestic
Content notice (6)
- illness, a delayed diagnosis, and administrative failure rather than an assailant
- a funeral trade depicted in working detail, including a cold room, a plate scale, and four hundred and twelve funerals
- an obsession with weight, and a protagonist who has entered figures in a book without verifying them
- complicity that is total and spoken about openly, in which every character says what they did
- explicit adult intimacy between a husband and wife of twenty-four years, in the room where the work is done
- a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Ruckholt is a hill village of peat banks and one stone cold room behind the chapel, kept below freezing for nine years at village expense and never explained.
- ~20 min
- 4584 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 27 plays
fantasyeveryonevillagefolk-magicgriefsmall-townlabourquietwinterinteractive-fiction
Content notice (5)
- childhood death
- grief
- suppressed grief
- unpaid labour
- small amounts of money
· 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
teenfantasycivic-fantasyquarantinecontagion-magicmass-distrustsmall-townpaperwork-ethicspublic-recordinstitutional-ethicsmoral-ambiguityrestrained-fantasy-craftno-sexual-content
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
- 32 plays
all-agesfantasyfolk-magicvillage-lifegriefsmall-townruralinstitutional-ethicsmoral-ambiguityone-sentence-magicliteraryno-sexual-content
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
mature-17-plusfantasymorbid-fantasyundertakerspaperwork-magicsmall-towninstitutional-ethicsinheritancegriefapprenticeshipmoral-ambiguityrestrained-fantasy-craftno-sexual-content
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 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
mature-17-plusfantasycartographychart-magiccoastalinstitutional-pressureprofessional-ethicssmall-townworkplacemoral-ambiguityrestrained-fantasy-craftno-explicit-sexual-content
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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
all-agesfantasyvillagefood-and-craftsmall-townquiet-mysterydebt-and-obligationdomesticfound-familymoral-ambiguityno-sexual-content
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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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