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Nothing Grows Where It Is Planted
A hundred and eleven acres of fruiting orchard stands over a buried city, and because the roots go down into the ruins, every fruit names the place it was fed from.
- ~200 min (estimated)
- 44057 words
- 36 scenes
- 12 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
36 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
No cover art yet · art review pending · listing metadata: importer · counts: script-heuristic
About
A buyer has found a graft that reaches ground that neither of the two rival surveys has ever mapped, and a sale is a disclosure, so every fruit she sells publishes an address nobody in the district is authorised to know. The register that proves where the fruit came from has no column for what was found, and the man who has forty-one days left to finish the hundredth year of his survey has to decide what a document does when the thing he found does not fit anywhere in it. The Rootwork is a hundred and eleven acres in a silted oxbow forty miles from the sea: the Ward Orchard on the high west side, the Fenrows on the low east, and a strip of ground between them called the Middle Orchard where nobody ever put a seedling and where a dozen unlisted trees are nevertheless growing. The soil is dark to the depth and never quite dries. The water is forty feet down and you can hear the pipe-galler
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- A character's long-held professional grievance is described in detail and is not resolved by their death.
- A relationship that has run for decades is written as companionship, not as conflict or assault.
- Depiction of controlled cutting of fruit trees as husbandry, with no injury beyond a cut hand.
- No romance is offered, and no personal relationship is a key, a piece of evidence, or leverage.
- Intimacy is off-page and not central to the plot.
Cast
- M Marren Ashlock no portrait yet
- O Ottiline Vrey no portrait yet
- S Sennet Bray no portrait yet
- D Dellory Fenn no portrait yet
- M Mirren Ostley no portrait yet