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The Half-Inch a Week
A choir of six singers maintains a basilica four hundred feet under the Kaitole Flats that is slowly turning into salt, one sustained note each, and has done so for four hundred years.
- ~127 min (estimated)
- 28130 words
- 41 scenes
- 11 branch points (script estimate)
- 7 endings (script estimate)
31 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
One of the six has begun singing a deliberately wrong note so that a side aisle will grow half an inch a week, because behind eleven feet of that growth there is a small room, and in the room is a page, and the page is for her. The Ledger of Columns has four hundred and eleven ruled pages, one per column, and it cannot record a note that was never sung. The Kaitole Flats are nine hundred square miles of white pan under an enormous sky. Under them stands a basilica that was cut from rock, flooded with brine, and sung dry, and that is now neither stone nor salt but a thing in between: milk-white crystal with a green heart, humming when the air moves, growing at the cold ends, its floor under a drift of grit that squeaks like snapped sugar under every boot. Six singers live down there in brass-tipped choir stalls above the crossing and keep the whole enormous quiet thing in the shape of a c
Content notice4 topics · tap to review
- Themes of bodily cost, institutional procedure, and a record that is correct and damaging.
- No blood, no cruelty depicted for its own sake, and no reward or punishment for refusing an advance or an offer.
- Depiction of chronic work-related harm to the body: cracked lips, salt crust, damaged teeth, exhaustion.
- Fictional. Not advice about singing, structural upkeep, water rights, or record keeping.
Cast
- I Ilde no portrait yet
- G Garrick no portrait yet
- N Nissa no portrait yet
- O Ordin no portrait yet
- L Lida no portrait yet