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House Numbers
Eight named adults are the story's foreground: seven players and Ivo Marin, the caller, who plays a round himself on the weeks when nobody else has offered.
- ~95 min
- 20942 words
- 8 branch points
- 4 endings
- 32 plays
Content notice (8)
- a social game in a hall where nobody is competing for money, and the numbers not owing anybody a pattern
- a caller who has started leaving a silence before a number and the room not discussing it
- a woman who hears that silence and is not asked to interpret it for anybody
- a man who is openly competitive about a game with almost nothing at stake
- a man who draws small pictures in the margin of his bingo card and does not want to be asked about them
- a woman on rotating night shifts who misses Thursdays and explains nothing
- a woman who is at the hall every week and has never played
- adults weighing whether to hand a small kindness to a stranger or leave it alone
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count