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Six Inches of Whitewash
In Coldrow the dead are kept in blown glass bells and the evening wind is what sounds them, and one bell in the seventh bay has begun sounding a note that is in no gust going anywhere.
- ~117 min (estimated)
- 25956 words
- 25 scenes
- 14 branch points (script estimate)
- 6 endings (script estimate)
27 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
The lead seal on that bell carries a name that is on the schoolmaster's list of the living, and the tuner rota — the only instrument the valley owns — has a column for which bell, a column for the date, a column for the ringer and a column for who is called, and no column at all for who is in it. Four adults have eleven days before the turning wind to decide whether the fix is to grind the note out of the glass, to rule a sixth column on the wall, to make the Crown Kiln refuse in writing, to weigh the ash, or to change nothing whatsoever. The valley of Vesset Grail is a cold limestone trough four miles long. The village of Coldrow sits on the lee side so the wind crosses the roofs before it reaches the colonnade, which stands alone on the north strip: nine bays, sixty-one pale blue-green glass bells, each the height of a person, each hung on a wrought-iron yoke between fluted pillars of
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- Explicit mention of a funeral fire and of the sound of a name read out in a courtyard. Neither is described graphically.
- No audio of any kind. The sound of this world is written down in words and never played.
Cast
- I Ione no portrait yet
- M Marget no portrait yet
- B Bela no portrait yet
- L Lise no portrait yet
- A Ansel no portrait yet
- H Hessa no portrait yet