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The Two Birth Certificates
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Marrow Quay is an estuary town of eleven thousand people, a register office on Quay Street, a depot at Ashgrove where carriage doors are fitted, and a flat at number four on Wren Court with a kitchen that is the only warm room in it.
- ~406 min
- 89390 words
- 22 branch points
- 5 endings
- 65 plays
matureadults-onlycontemporarydomesticbureaucracymarriageidentitymarriage-of-conveniencesibling-novelsdialogue-heavyendings-multiple
Content notice (8)
- A false civil registration and a declaration of truth made in a prescribed form in 2014
- A marriage that is annulled on paper and cannot be copied in any future
- A woman's body altered by surgery at 36 and a loss of a pregnancy that never happened
- The death of a woman of 71 in Lagos, described in a letter and not depicted
- Vascular dementia and a left-sided stroke in a woman of 74, and her giving evidence by video link in court
- A fire in a registry annex in 1994 that destroyed six thousand registrations and was never reported
- A public correction published as item 41 of a monthly notice, and a stranger's search in Lagos
- Financial distress, a house sold, and a credit union emptied
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The Ledger Cannot Lie
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Candleford keeps ninety leafless plantations alive by flying nine thousand clockwork moths over them every dusk, and every one of those nights is written down to the last moth, in a ledger that is exact, complete, unalterable, and forty thousand lines deep.
- ~188 min
- 41366 words
- 16 branch points (script estimate)
- 6 endings (script estimate)
- 28 plays
Content notice (3)
- No gore, no violence that lands, no injury, and no permanent harm to any character.
- Nobody is a villain: the antagonist is a ledger format that is exact, complete, and answering a question nobody asked.
- Depiction of bureaucratic routine and commercial pressure only; no instructions for harmful activity.
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Six Inches of Whitewash
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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
- 25956 words
- 14 branch points (script estimate)
- 6 endings (script estimate)
- 27 plays
Content notice (2)
- 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.
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The Second Column
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A north-country guild breeds cold as a crop: it sows frost into prepared ground in autumn, draws it down into granite voids cut into a hillside, and sells it at a market by the yard, in bars, in rink-plates, in whole hired winters.
- ~172 min
- 38006 words
- 14 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
- 36 plays
Content notice (1)
- No sexual content beyond that implication. No sexual violence. No coercion that is rewarded.
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The Unkept Register
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This year a great many vows sworn on the Long Vow come due at once, because the pass has been busy for a century and because the Register — the bound ledger every keeper copies into — records the term of each vow and never the date the term ends.
- ~169 min
- 37378 words
- 12 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
- 23 plays
Content notice (2)
- All four principals are adults (41, 34, 68, 52) and no one under eighteen appears in any role.
- Death is not depicted. Nobody dies in this novel, and the weight of the season is entirely in what does not happen.
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Nothing Grows Where It Is Planted
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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
- 44057 words
- 12 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
- 36 plays
Content notice (5)
- 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.
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One Line Per Bell
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Gethin Bell has cast bells for four hundred years, each with one deliberate flaw cut into the metal, and each flaw decides the single thing that bell will ever be allowed to say.
- ~175 min
- 38655 words
- 13 branch points (script estimate)
- 6 endings (script estimate)
- 30 plays
Content notice (7)
- Consensual adult intimacy between two adults, off page; optional and refusable at every step.
- Institutional pressure, procedural argument, and the threat of a flood; no injury is depicted.
- Death of unnamed off-screen characters is referred to in the past tense only.
- Strong language in the counting house and the shed.
- No gore, no violence, no coercion that is rewarded.
- No one in this novel is granted anything, forgiven anything or promoted for refusing a choice.
- No audio of any kind: the novel is text only.
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Two Metres of Bare Board
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Under the corps of the Thistlewire, eight salaried understudies sit on two metres of bare board in the dark and go on nightly in the places of the advertised leads, whose names are gilt on a board in Ardle Street and absent from the building.
- ~158 min
- 34959 words
- 13 branch points (script estimate)
- 6 endings (script estimate)
- 30 plays
Content notice (0)
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The Half-Inch a Week
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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
- 28130 words
- 11 branch points (script estimate)
- 7 endings (script estimate)
- 31 plays
Content notice (4)
- 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.
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The Rest in the Seventh Part
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The Shoulder of Nine Notes has held the Longest Night back for six hundred years with a nine-part chord, and the ring is down to three players out of nine, and the wall has begun to be thin in places.
- ~108 min
- 23916 words
- 13 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
- 27 plays
Content notice (0)
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So Long as the Show Is Shown
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The Gilded Menagerie has run the Salt Line for thirty-one years on a contract that renews itself every time the canvas goes up, and this season the renewals have started passing through: the animal is coming up in the performers and the person is going down in the animal.
- ~55 min
- 12100 words
- 14 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
- 26 plays
Content notice (3)
- audience: adults only
- genres: adult fantasy drama, legal and institutional ensemble, circus ensemble
- depiction of harm: no gore, no injury, no violence that lands, and no death
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The Ninety-Year Term
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Six hundred years of peace in the caldera of Mount Sere run on a single instrument that was sworn for a term of one hundred years and was never re-sworn; when the arithmetic finally breaks, the number on the noon plinth reads minus one thousand nine hundred and eighteen seams, and there are four day
- ~190 min
- 41920 words
- 14 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
- 31 plays
Content notice (4)
- All four principals are adults (29, 54, 44, 38) and no one under eighteen appears in any role.
- Illness, ageing, and the off-page end of a long institutional career; the Keeper's sight and hands are failing.
- One scene of adult intimacy, negotiated out loud, which fades to black and is not narrated.
- Reference to a naming list of over-burdened citizens; the individual names are not depicted in a degrading context.
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The Retention Schedule
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The Tide Library floods every seventh night, its books swim home to their shelves, and every reader who reads there loses a part of themselves into the book they were holding.
- ~79 min
- 17592 words
- 14 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
- 20 plays
Content notice (1)
- Loud crowding in a public reading room, and a part being spoken aloud in a stranger's voice in front of strangers.
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Full Weight
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The Hollow Court keeps no gold and no land; it keeps stories, told aloud in the Hall of Telling and minted into thin silver that is spent at one table and nowhere else.
- ~80 min
- 17750 words
- 13 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
- 27 plays
Content notice (7)
- Institutional decay, and a sovereign who has gone un-asked-for for nine hundred years
- A miller who has secretly ground the archive into bread for nine years, and who says so
- A Fool who has been listened to for fifty-eight years and earned nothing, and the one woman in a room he lost on purpose
- One adult relationship, optional, negotiated in plain words, and off-page; declining it is fully authored
- Threatened erasure from a record rather than death; the Queen is not saved in two of the five endings
- A child of fourteen is named and is never a speaker or a portrait
- No gore, no sexual violence, no sexual content, and nobody is granted anything for refusing
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A Full and Honest Accounting
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A trans-desert railway runs on hours taken from passengers who are never told, and when one salt trader arrives at the far end eleven days older than her own ticket, the conductor who carried her, the inspector who should have caught it, the broker who sold the overspill and the accountant who certi
- ~105 min
- 23201 words
- 13 branch points (script estimate)
- 6 endings (script estimate)
- 22 plays
Content notice (1)
- No gore, no cruelty written for its own sake, and no one is granted anything for refusing anything.
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What the Board Cannot Say
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For four hundred years the pact between the village of Nettlefold and the Walking Wood has been kept by reading it aloud, forty-one lines at a time, every Samstag night.
- ~54 min
- 11988 words
- 14 branch points (script estimate)
- 6 endings (script estimate)
- 25 plays
Content notice (0)
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The Weight of Small Hours
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For sixty years the fishing town of Brinehold has paid its debt to the bay in lamplight, and the First Lantern at the harbour is guttering in its own glass with four weeks before the whole chain fails inward.
- ~167 min
- 36902 words
- 11 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
- 24 plays
Content notice (4)
- The drowned are described without injury, blood or decomposition. No gore of any kind.
- Chronic illness and death of an elderly character, and a life measurably shortened by giving hours.
- No sexual content beyond that implication. No sexual violence. No minors in any role.
- Strong language and coarse speech in the mouths of divers and lighters.
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
House Numbers
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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
- 31 plays
adult ensemble comedycontemporary slice of lifesocial gamefound family by proximityThree Thursday evenings across one English autumn: Thursday 8 October, Thursday 5 November and Thursday 3 December 2026,
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
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Open Jump
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One Thursday, from seven o'clock to eighteen minutes to eight, seven regulars and one newcomer bounce in a trampoline park on an industrial estate outside Coventry, in a room the owner also stands in.
- ~107 min
- 23561 words
- 7 branch points
- 5 endings
- 26 plays
adult ensemble comedycontemporary slice of lifegroup dynamicsphysical comedyOne Thursday evening, 19:00 to 19:42, on an estate off the A46 outside Coventry, in the fourth year of a weekly adult op
Content notice (6)
- a room in which a top has appeared over four years that nobody chose
- a night baker whose work shift collides with the only hour he is free
- a physiotherapist being asked to give her professional judgement for free
- a man of sixty-three who is hard of hearing in a room that has got louder
- adults weighing whether to give up an hour a week to a coached beginners session
- a trampoline park, described in operational detail, and posted rules that are never broken
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The Typing Indicator
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Seven adults in one family group chat.
- ~108 min
- 23942 words
- 7 branch points
- 5 endings
- 39 plays
adult ensemble dramafamily dramacontemporary slice of lifetechnology and intimacyThe core week is Monday 19 October to Sunday 25 October 2026; the endings follow the family into 2027, across British an
Content notice (5)
- a family group chat nobody can agree what it is for
- an aunt who has been answering photographs she cannot see for eleven months
- an eldest sibling awake at four in the morning in another time zone
- the youngest sibling being asked to do the family's practical work again
- adults weighing whether to spend an hour a week being available to each other
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Eighth Seat
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Seven friends have played the same intricate fantasy campaign for twelve years, every Saturday, mostly at one woman's dining-room table.
- ~108 min
- 23767 words
- 7 branch points
- 5 endings
- 35 plays
adult ensemble dramatabletop fantasyfriendship and authorshipOne Saturday evening through the following morning, during the final session of a twelve-year campaign in fictional Lowf
Content notice (3)
- longtime friends discuss who hosts, writes and holds a shared campaign archive
- a player is leaving town for a temporary work rota
- the group considers ending or changing a twelve-year creative tradition
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Machine Parade
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A Ren'Py visual novel for the netwrck library, id 234.
- ~115 min
- 25396 words
- 9 branch points
- 4 endings
- 30 plays
community arts comedycraft ensemble dramalight speculative fictionEleven days of preparation and the ninth annual Machine Parade in the fictional town of Sallowmere.
Content notice (2)
- adult collaborators disagree about credit, public access and event organisation
- the story discusses permits and whether a public invitation is genuinely accessible
· play time estimated from word count
The Night Train Seat
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On the Coastal Night, an overnight sleeper from Port Arvain to Cresset Bay, a dining-car pianist who plays only while the doors are open and a night conductor newly assigned to the run spend eleven hours finding out whether they can be in the same carriage without either of them pretending.
- ~110 min
- 24262 words
- 7 branch points
- 5 endings
- 26 plays
adult slow-burn romancerailway ensemble dramamusic and work dramaOne overnight service, Port Arvain 21:40 to Cresset Bay 08:55, in the fictional Cavandel State Railways network.
Content notice (3)
- a character has not played music for eleven years after leaving an ensemble
- a pianist works with stiffness in a thumb joint
- adult characters discuss work, money and a possible change in career
· play time estimated from word count
The Type Between Words
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At Weir Street Press, a community letterpress shop is setting a bilingual poetry anthology.
- ~97 min
- 21357 words
- 7 branch points
- 4 endings
- 31 plays
letterpress craft ensemblemultilingual literary dramacommunity printshop storyOne working week at Weir Street Press in June 2026.
Content notice (2)
- accessibility needs and print-size choices
- professional disagreement about editing and attribution
· play time estimated from word count
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