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The Fifth End at Greyglass
Friday night at the Greyglass Curling Club, in the north end of a hall whose ice plant comes out in November.
- ~26 min (estimated)
- 5903 words
- 38 scenes
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- One Friday night in November, 19:40 to about 23:30, the Greyglass Curling Club, north end of a hall above a farm-feed sh
19 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Ailsa Kerr learned to curl on Sheet B at nine from a man whose name she has never said in that hall, and has called a Greyglass side every week since 1995. On the last night the club will ever hold a bonspiel she is down two in the fifth end with the hammer, and the ice plant on the roof is four months dead: sixty-one thousand pounds to replace against four thousand two hundred in the account, and a lease transfer in her coat that nobody has mentioned all evening. Over five ends and 6 choice menus a four-person team works a draw that ends one rock short, and the reader chooses how the club spends its last four minutes. Nothing is explained: every rule of curling arrives because somebody needs it at that moment, as a thrower who cannot see the rings, a sweeper who turns a hog-line stone into a guard, a free guard zone violation, a scoreboard running ends instead of the game, and a book that has to be read out loud to an empty room. The fifth end is a choice between the safe single and a double that cannot be hit without giving one back, and the five endings are decided by what the team built in the first four ends: whether the ice was read, whether the lead was trusted with it, and whether a seventy-one-year-old member with a bad hip was given the hack because the rules say he must be.
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- closure of a volunteer club and loss of a community institution
- a failed ice plant and a repair the club cannot fund
- transfer of the lease on the hall, signed during the final game
- an elderly member with a bad hip permitted one stone, on the rules
- a nineteen-year-old handed keys to premises he has no authority over
Cast
- A Ailsa Kerr no portrait yet
- P Priya Raghunathan no portrait yet
- M Maeve Callaghan no portrait yet
- D Douglas Arnott no portrait yet
- S Sinead Corrigan no portrait yet
- A Aksel Brandt no portrait yet
- N Nuala Baird no portrait yet
- F Ferenc Szabo no portrait yet
- R Rhoda Speirs no portrait yet
- D Dev Matheson no portrait yet