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The Typing Indicator
Seven adults in one family group chat.
- ~108 min (estimated)
- 23942 words
- 35 scenes
- 7 branch points
- 5 endings
- The core week is Monday 19 October to Sunday 25 October 2026; the endings follow the family into 2027, across British an
39 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Seven adults in one family group chat called Sunday. It was made seven years ago by the eldest sibling for one purpose: one Sunday a year, no agenda, one true thing each. He is now seventy-one, in Auckland, twelve hours ahead of Bristol until Britain changes its clocks on Sunday 25 October 2026, then thirteen hours ahead. The annual check-in has quietly become a thing that happens whenever he is awake at four in the morning. He has asked the youngest to change the cadence, because everybody asks the youngest. At the other end of the same thread is the aunt, seventy-eight, in Bristol, who invented the Sunday in 2019, who does not want to learn another app, and who has for eleven months been describing photographs she cannot see so accurately that nobody in the family has dared correct her. She was born in May 1948; the eldest nephew was born in July 1955, when she was seven. The reader plays Wren, twenty-seven, in Chicago, who edits the sound in a small game about a lighthouse keeper and who knows exactly what the three dots are worth. Over one week, Britain and then Chicago change their clocks a week apart. Seven decisions cover when to reply, which medium to use, whether to move an awkward subject to a call, what the shared Sunday is actually for, how to offer quiet or an invitation, whether one person should administer the group, and finally what shape the thing takes. Five endings, all of them valid, none of them a reconciliation: a standing call, a note on the first of the month, an opt-in gathering, a quieter network of individual check-ins, and the one where nothing is restructured and the youngest simply comes off the list of people who run things.
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- a family group chat nobody can agree what it is for
- an aunt who has been answering photographs she cannot see for eleven months
- an eldest sibling awake at four in the morning in another time zone
- the youngest sibling being asked to do the family's practical work again
- adults weighing whether to spend an hour a week being available to each other
Cast
- W Wren Adeyemi audio designer, Chicago, the youngest sibling, player perspective no portrait yet
- T Tobi Adeyemi secondary maths teacher, Manchester, replies at one in the morning no portrait yet
- N Nia Adeyemi architect, Lagos, forty-one-second voice notes no portrait yet
- S Segun Adeyemi school minibus driver, Cardiff, an hour from Vivienne's door no portrait yet
- H Halima Adeyemi community pharmacist, Leeds, notifications off since 2019 no portrait yet
- G Gideon Adeyemi retired county surveyor, Auckland, made the Sunday in 2019 no portrait yet
- V Vivienne Adeyemi the aunt, Bristol, born May 1948, seven years two months older than her eldest nephew no portrait yet