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• Career sabotage and workplace coercion
• Physical injury (broken wrist; fall down stairs)
• Suspicion, isolation, and reputation collapse
• Grief over a failing art institution
• Ambiguous guilt and self-deception
• Emotional manipulation in a power imbalance (director/actor)
• Alcohol as coping
• Sex cuts away at the door (desire, aftermath, and consequence only)
• No instructional detail for causing harm

• Grief and parental alcoholism (aftermath)
• Economic coercion and harbour corruption
• Workplace loyalty conflicts / betrayal
• Violence at sea and dockside (graphic where earned)
• Sex work adjacent pressure (harbour economy); sex cuts away at the door
• Coercion, blackmail, and institutional capture
• Suicide ideation (implied, not instructional)
• Addiction (alcohol; consequences, not how-to)
• Bigotry shown through behaviour (class, “townie” contempt), no slurs written out

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• livestock mortality on a mountain pass, one animal described going over an edge
• official documents, a public meeting, land deregistration and a named criminal complaint
• a woman under institutional pressure to sign a number
• consensual adult intimacy written on the page, with the consent spoken aloud
• an envelope of unlabelled money received and never spent
• prejudice against a family whose name is not on a register
• an animal named and counted as a person is mourned

• Financial loss, redundancy, institutional complicity in a purchase, and the sale of a working life at a bad price.
• Alcohol, and two decades of not saying a thing.
• No slurs are written out. Bigotry shows through behaviour and consequence.

• A bridge that is over its limit and is signed off anyway.
• A falsified or never-verified model input, and a data science ticket closed as expected drift.
• Weight restriction, road diversion, freight cost, and two small businesses closing.
• A person resigning by email and a professional reputation ending in a file.
• A woman saying no to something she wanted, and the no being correct.

• Coercive control within a marriage
• Memory loss and the loss of a person's own history
• An industrial accident and its concealment
• A financial deception against a family that is still paying for it
• A non-consensual restraint, described in the past tense
• Explicit sexual content between spouses, stopping on a spoken word
• Self-harm ideation by a protagonist, stated and refused
• A legal signature that cannot be withdrawn
• Medical procedures described in a mine chamber and a surgery
• A hard moral set of choices with no option that does not cost something
• Death of named characters before and off the page

• Suicide, an agreed pact, and a drowning
• Death of a lead character, repeated across five endings
• Cold-water immersion and cold-shock physiology
• Deliberate breath-holding
• Antidepressant medication and a whole dose taken
• Explicit sexual content between consenting adults
• Body recovery from water
• An inquest
• A family member misled by a true statement
• Sibling estrangement on a bereavement route
• No minor in any role

• Death by smoke inhalation in an institutional fire, described and not depicted
• Withdrawal of a manslaughter count without a hearing
• A care home operated for profit with residents who died in it
• Fraud worth £412,000 and a perverting-the-course-of-justice count
• A judicial review and a public hearing in open court
• A criminal case certificate surrendered and a career ended
• A marriage under sustained strain
• A man with an ankle tag, a curfew and no accommodation on a fixed date
• Two endings in which a named person is homeless on a stated morning
• Written consensual adult intimacy between a prosecutor and the man she sentenced

• A shared consciousness with no privacy on one specific side, described mechanically and used as the engine of the book
• A statutory declaration that requires one of two people to state in writing how many days she was alone and self-aware
• An offer on the table to withdraw one person permanently to a read-only archive, and an ending in which it is accepted
• Institutional control of a legal identity through a bank mandate, a driving licence and a form with a box on it
• Explicit language about a body

• A repeated day and the loss of the repetitions
• A death in an industrial workplace, referred to and not depicted
• Electrical installation work described in professional rather than instructional terms
• A decade of deception between adults
• An explicit sexual scene between consenting adults, with consent spoken aloud
• A wheelchair user and a care home
• Institutional suppression of a safety finding by procedure rather than by conspiracy
• A signature on a record that cannot be withdrawn

• the death of a man of nineteen in a road collision, described only as an age, a date and a track that cannot be played
• a man's cremated alive in another man's name and another man's ashes under that man's headstone
• a family of forty-one at a graveside for a man who was not there
• a widow sent a sympathy card every December for seven years about a son who was alive for every one of them
• a record corrected in one place and left wrong in another on purpose
• a man asked a question by a police officer in a churchyard and unable to answer it
• a hard moral choice with five futures and no option that costs nothing

• the death of a parent, described only from what his two children say about it and from a certificate
• a criminal trial and an acquittal for fraud, described through what two people remember of the gallery
• eleven households owed money by a house they are not living in
• a deliberate false statement given to a member of the public and never corrected
• explicit adult intimacy between a brother and a sister, both adults, written on the page
• coverture by a filing system, and a want that neither of the two admits to for eleven weeks
• a hard moral choice in which every option closes a door that does not open again

• Descent risk to a crew member stated as a probability and tracked through paperwork
• A launch held or scrubbed in four of the five endings
• A professional recusal and the loss of standing it costs
• A next-of-kin form read literally, including the consequence of leaving a box empty
• A spouse's medical data held outside the medical set and used or withheld
• A described sexual encounter between spouses, with the consent spoken aloud before anything happens
• Explicit language about a body, a marriage, and a person's age
• Alcohol-free domestic detail: boiler services, a cat on a boiler, a broken chair, a solicitor's letter read once

• Time repetition and loss of autobiographical time
• Injury without violence, and a medical record read aloud in a corridor
• A form signed in a room with five people watching
• A public record naming two people
• Explicit consensual adult intimacy, with an in-world stop word that is used
• A death is not depicted and nobody dies; a previous marriage that lasted fourteen months is stated in dialogue

• domestic horror, not supernatural horror: the threat is administrative and domestic
• descriptive violence is absent; nobody is hurt and nobody dies on any route
• explicit sexual content between two consenting married adults, written, in one scene
• consent is negotiated out loud in clauses and either person can stop it with one word
• the encounter gates no choice and no ending
• grief about a dead parent, a dead spouse and a neighbour who leaves
• social isolation and the loss of community as a subject, not as a threat
• no minors, no minors-coded characters, no ambiguity
• no instructional detail for any procedure, trade or offence
• no slurs are written out anywhere in the text
• all places, companies, offices, forms and people are fictional

• illness, a delayed diagnosis, and administrative failure rather than an assailant
• a funeral trade depicted in working detail, including a cold room, a plate scale, and four hundred and twelve funerals
• an obsession with weight, and a protagonist who has entered figures in a book without verifying them
• complicity that is total and spoken about openly, in which every character says what they did
• explicit adult intimacy between a husband and wife of twenty-four years, in the room where the work is done
• a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing

• A wrongful conviction and eleven months of imprisonment that are never given back
• A custody suite, a strip search, and the specific detail of a wrist
• A written sexual scene between consenting adults in their fifties
• A professional misconduct hearing and the loss of a career
• A death in 1998, referred to and not depicted
• A housing form that asks about convictions in a tick-box
• A son who will not ask his mother a question
• A name that is said out loud four times in a book and does not repair anything

• a workplace ration of intimacy between two colleagues, agreed out loud in the room and scheduled on a public whiteboard
• an explicit written adult sexual encounter at twenty past four in the morning, inside an engineering argument
• a professional relationship destroyed between two people who were both good at the job, in the open, with no betrayal
• the loss of a shared project, a subsea field, to a vibration figure that nobody could have argued with
• a reactor operated outside its certified envelope, and the procedural consequences of doing so
• institutional indifference expressed as procedure: a cancelled core, an expired certificate, a berth left unallocated
• a medical drug count performed in public, and a recompression chamber booked for a reason nobody states
• a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing

• the implied withdrawal of consent and its consequences, written on the page
• a relationship loss described directly, without softening
• no minors and no minors-coded characters
• no violence and no injury
• no drug use
• no slurs written out; bigotry shown only through behaviour and consequence
• explicit adult intimacy between consenting adults only

• A village agreement by custom that overrides an individual's living, enforced by nobody and obeyed by everybody
• A woman of 27 who is given a ritual she was not told the cost of, and is damaged by it
• A name in a public record, in a case file, and in a national database, and a family that has to be told
• Fictional village, fjord, house, people, and documents

• death and mortuary settings
• body misidentification and cremated remains
• domestic abuse and coercive control recalled
• fraud, wage theft and gambling debt
• exploitation of undocumented workers
• family estrangement and grief
• alcohol use
• implied sexual history, cuts away
• bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out

• Sale and loss of an inherited business
• A marriage of nine years ending over money that is not coming back
• An adult affair, written in full, between two adults who agreed what they want and what stops it out loud
• A man being right about half of what he says in a room with a sea view
• Eleven people told about their jobs by somebody else
• A public accusation in a small professional trade
• A woman describing her own failure accurately to the man it concerns
• A building converted to flats and a name taken off a sea front

• the death of a spouse, described from a post-mortem report and from what people said afterwards
• grief, prolonged, in a house with fourteen bedrooms
• a body pledged as security for a debt by a deed its subject drafted herself
• a marriage recorded as a compliance obligation and read aloud to strangers
• public disclosure of an intimate private record
• a professional and financial ruin that is not prevented
• explicit adult intimacy between a widow and a man who acts for the people she owes
• a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing

• A will that disinherits the woman who made it
• A nuptial settlement made without independent advice
• Professional falsification of document authorship
• A deleted or lost career and a dissolved partnership
• A member of the public reading private words in open court
• Sex between two consenting adults, written, including a standing order about stopping that is renegotiated
• A group of 3,904 people paying more because of a private decision