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The Last Orchard on Mars
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A botanist tending the colony’s last two pear trees faces a failing air regenerator, a shrinking water reserve, and a departing freighter.
- ~154 min
- 32267 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 21 plays
grounded science fictionecological dramaadult fictionA twenty-two-sol crisis on the fictional Hollow Anvil Mars colony
Content notice (2)
- institutional decisions under resource constraints
- public records and material consequences
The Tidekeeper's Testimony
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Halloway has eleven thousand people, two hundred and fourteen houses on Marsh Lane, one gauge, and a number in a book from the winter of 2003 that is a hundred and two centimetres out.
- ~169 min
- 35756 words
- 6 branch points
- 4 endings
- 15 plays
coastal legal mysterycivic dramaadult fictionSeptember 2026, fictional Halloway estuary
Content notice (2)
- institutional decisions under resource constraints
- public records and material consequences
The Four Hundred Cover
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Standing is a restaurant in a converted 1908 cold store on Finkle Street in Kingston upon Hull.
- ~177 min
- 38976 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 42 plays
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Content notice (5)
- A six-year financial arrangement entered into without consent and sustained by omission
- A partnership and a reputation withdrawn for something the protagonist said out loud
- A career ending and a colleague's resignation-threat described in an office
- A public reading of a private bank line in front of twenty-nine staff
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that carries the damage rather than preventing it
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Consent Order
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In England and Wales you cannot end a marriage quietly.
- ~227 min
- 49973 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 45 plays
matureadults-onlyexplicitfamily-lawconsent-ordercourtroomproceduralmarriageseparationdomestic-violence-reported-to-nobodyinstitutionalsecond-act-aftermathdomesticworkplacebritishdialogue-led
Content notice (8)
- Domestic violence that is not reported to the police and never is
- A court finding about a hand on a throat, entered in a public document
- A permanent legal restraint on sexual relations between spouses, agreed to in advance
- Sexual content between adults, with consent stated aloud, in a house that is being emptied
- A professional conduct finding and a partnership put under review
- A judgment and a register entry that are public and permanent
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that does the damage
- A marriage that continues after a document has ended it
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Witness Was in the House
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No. 3 Quarry Bank is a 1936 semi-detached house in Cranmere, Worcestershire, with a yard eleven metres deep and a brick wall just over a metre high.
- ~227 min
- 49945 words
- 8 branch points
- 5 endings
- 51 plays
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Content notice (7)
- A death by blunt force to the head, referred to, with no method depicted and no injury described
- A body in a house, a grey rug with a fringe, and a mortuary van on a Friday afternoon
- A police interview, a caution, a video recording, and the reader's own words read back to them
- Insomnia, a two-week rotation break, and a taped hand described on the page
- A woman destroys two letters written by a frightened man at 04:44 and cannot undo it
- Sexual content between two adults in a bed that becomes an exhibit, with consent stated aloud and either able to stop
- Bigotry as behaviour: an assumption about a nationality, a cash rent, and a man who cooks for other people
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Clinic Called in March
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Nell Ardery is 36 and a clinical scientist in molecular diagnostics at Ardwick Diagnostics on the Cavendish Road site, which is where the trust sends anything that has to be answered in eleven working days.
- ~222 min
- 48998 words
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
- 47 plays
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Content notice (8)
- a first-trimester nuchal translucency measurement of 4.6 millimetres that was never acted on
- a possible genetic or chromosomal condition in a living two-year-old that is never established either way
- a medical records failure affecting six hundred and eleven women
- a referral, blood tests and a wait of eighteen to twenty-four months
- a telephone call read from a script and a batch of letters posted in one morning
- a man who made a risk small in a car park in August 2023 and said nothing about it for four hundred and sixty weeks
- a spreadsheet that ran a marriage and a formula in column ten that could not tell a fact from a stranger
- a daughter's name as the only thing about her that has never been on a form
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Rank Fourteen
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Dane Okonjo is 44 and has driven the night rank outside Tarncaster railway station for nine years.
- ~214 min
- 47135 words
- 11 branch points
- 4 endings
- 42 plays
night worktaxi rankunrecorded debtmarriage and divorceadult romancecare workcontrolled drug stockfitness to practiseproceduralnoir-adjacentEnglish cityMATUREexplicit
Content notice (5)
- a care home resident with vascular dementia and a history of alcohol-related brain injury
- epilepsy and a stoppd anticonvulsant; a patient having seizures is described and not depicted
- occupational and professional disciplinary procedure
- a university fitness to practise procedure
- alcohol use is present as a fact about a diagnosis and a caution, and is not described
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Understudy Owns the Room
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The Rodliffe is a red-brick municipal theatre in Netherfold with six hundred and forty seats and one stage, and *The Glass Widow* by Irena Kovács has been in rehearsal there since the eighth of September.
- ~179 min
- 39486 words
- 9 branch points
- 4 endings
- 44 plays
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Content notice (8)
- An extra-marital relationship of eight months between a married man and another man's wife
- A second relationship by the same woman, of four months, with the director of the same production
- A marriage held together for eleven weeks by a document and a spreadsheet
- An adult man's career ended by a growth on his vocal fold and by a contract clause
- A professional disagreement about a go-on, a two-hour notice clause, and a twenty-minute hold rule
- A production cancelled in one of four futures
- Explicit sexual content between adults, with consent and limits stated out loud before anything happens
- A word used as a stop during a performance, in front of an audience
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The House With Someone In It
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Ilse Baradi is forty-four and runs the duty rota at the Netherfield Health Centre on Barrow Lane, which means that the whole of her working life is the art of writing down who will be where, and at what hour, in advance.
- ~114 min
- 25224 words
- 13 branch points
- 5 endings
- 40 plays
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Content notice (9)
- An adult family member unpaid for nine years and unnamed in a will
- A will re-cut on a telephone in nineteen minutes, and the witness clause
- Financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult, named in exact money
- The threat and reality of a care assessment and a care plan
- Adult sexual content between spouses, conducted in a house with a third adult in it
- A marriage of practical reasons hiding an unreconciled death from 2015
- A death described from the room it happened in
- A hard moral choice that no option resolves
- A romantic climax that is used as leverage and named as such afterwards
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Syllabus She Built
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Ashgrove University sits in Marchmont on a parkland campus built in 1974 and repaired ever since.
- ~233 min
- 51349 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 44 plays
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Content notice (9)
- An academic misconduct complaint upheld on procedural grounds
- A career suspended and a fitness to practise referral
- A first-year postgraduate research placement lost by a young man
- A plagiarism finding against a student who was never told
- Deliberate omission from a disclosure document
- Institutional silence and small-kindedness as concealment
- An adult sexual relationship between colleagues, written explicitly
- Financial strain and family debt
- Hard moral choices that no option resolves
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What the Recording Catches
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Fennimore Road in Headingley, Leeds, has a bathroom-tile shop on the ground floor and a two-room counselling practice above it, and Nell Ardery has recorded every single session that has ever been held in those two rooms.
- ~189 min
- 41707 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 45 plays
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Content notice (8)
- A husband describing his wife in the third person, at length, to another person, on a recording
- Infidelity-adjacent: a professional relationship that is not a sexual relationship but is not nothing
- Explicit adult sexual content, written in full, on a recording and in a room
- A professional ethics disclosure and the loss of a registration
- A partnership dissolved and a twenty-two-year friendship ended
- A client's recorded privacy entering a legal disclosure schedule
- A file destroyed to prevent a disclosure, which cannot be undone
- The reader's own act of listening to a recording is the premise and is never named
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The Address on the Form
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Carys Ollerton, 41, has been the senior clerk of the family division of Denby County Court for four years and a clerk in that building for eleven.
- ~466 min
- 102604 words
- 10 branch points
- 4 endings
- 59 plays
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Content notice (8)
- A removal direction sought against a mother and upheld in three of the four futures
- Institutional deportation described from a notice, a determination, and an airport at dawn
- A woman of twenty-one who is the subject of a court application and is not a party to it
- A professional conduct referral and a two-year loss of a clerk's certificate
- A marriage of nine years that ends in three of the four futures
- A daughter who does not return in two of the four futures
- A hearing aid, a mould, and a cost of a hundred and ninety-five pounds
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that does the damage
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Fourteen Hours of Snow
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Wetterstation Kaltbrunn stands at 2,940 metres on the Anzelgrat, a two-room manned weather station with one diesel heater, one generator, and a radio that draws its current from the same machine as the heat.
- ~230 min
- 50662 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 43 plays
alpineweather stationavalancheprofessional ethicsmarriagewinter nightgriefproceduraltwo-handerrestraineddomesticradar
Content notice (4)
- Death of a named adult woman at 34, off-page and reported.
- A wrongful professional call with a named institution, a named file, and a closed inquiry.
- Grief kept at a remove, and two adults who cannot say the sentence for four hours.
- Frostbite and the permanent loss of the ends of two fingers.
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Second Signature
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Wilhelminakade 214, third floor, Rotterdam.
- ~122 min
- 26887 words
- 13 branch points
- 4 endings
- 50 plays
matureadults-onlyexplicitnotarialprofessional-ethicsinstitutionalmaritaldutchrotterdamsecond-act-aftermathdomesticworkplacebetrayaldialogue-led
Content notice (6)
- A notarial act that is wrong in one field and cannot be withdrawn, corrected, or annotated by anybody afterwards
- A widow who is owed money and is not paid, in every route
- A boy of sixteen who wrote his name at the top of a form; he is not a character, is not present, and is not sexualised
- A fifteen-year deception inside a marriage, about a rope and a scar rather than about a person
- A woman's account of her own professional failure read out on a record and against her will
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that does the damage
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Ruckholt is a hill village of peat banks and one stone cold room behind the chapel, kept below freezing for nine years at village expense and never explained.
- ~20 min
- 4584 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 41 plays
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Content notice (5)
- childhood death
- grief
- suppressed grief
- unpaid labour
- small amounts of money
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
In Amberthwaite, magic is not cast.
- ~51 min
- 11408 words
- 6 branch points
- 4 endings
- 43 plays
mature-17-plusfantasyacademyinstitutional-critiquebureaucratic-magiccontracts-and-obligationcoercionrecords-and-evidencewintermoral-ambiguityrestrained-fantasy-craftno-sexual-content
Content notice (8)
- A minor's signature taken in an emergency and relied on for four years
- Institutional coercion by procedure rather than by force
- A witness who cannot afford to withdraw consent
- A job that cannot be declined and cannot be left
- Public naming of private financial obligation
- Hunger written as money, fees and wages
- Loss of irreplaceable records, described without injury
- Chosen adult company, non-sexual, bounded, easy to decline
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The Aldermere Valley is eleven miles long with one road in and no road out, and eleven small settlements in it, and at the middle of the valley, in the village of Ellet, there is a press that prints four pages every twelve days.
- ~43 min
- 9636 words
- 4 branch points
- 4 endings
- 54 plays
mature-17-plusfantasynewspaper-fantasyinformation-magicrural-valleytruth-and-liesreporter-protagonistinstitutional-ethicsmoral-ambiguityno-sexual-content
Content notice (12)
- A true report that functions as a lie
- A man who destroys himself on purpose
- Three men alive behind a wall, described as lost
- A request that a living man be printed dead
- A fourth person who knows and says nothing
- A false report that stopped a killing
- A death following a report that no man was hurt
- A mill closed and a village emptied by a printed line
- A house burned over a man who was not in it
- Detention on a priest's word
- Coercion by custom and by reputation
- Chosen adult company, non-sexual, fades before anything is depicted
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Ostrow is a river capital, and its Civic Collection is a long low yellow-brick building in the Marsch Park that was a customs house until 1937.
- ~31 min
- 7027 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 49 plays
all-agesfantasyarchitectural-magicmuseumswork-and-incompletioncivic-institutionsinstitutional-ethicsrestrained-fantasy-craftno-sexual-content
Content notice (5)
- A building begun and never finished
- A work site that failed under a boy at work
- Institutional pressure and a public committee
- A name removed from a public record in 1981
- A hard moral choice that no option resolves
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
In the Furnace Marches, war is not a spell.
- ~44 min
- 9816 words
- 4 branch points
- 4 endings
- 42 plays
mature-17-plusfantasyindustrial-fantasyinheritancesuccessioncoercionlabourledger-craftmetallurgical-magicinstitutional-ethicsmoral-ambiguityno-romanceno-sexual-content
Content notice (8)
- Inherited debt and coerced labour
- A magic system that draws years off a named person's life
- Institutional pressure and a public admission of fraud
- A death from occupational fume, reported
- War casualties, reported as a figure
- Mass layoff, lost wages, and a winter in one ending
- A final choice that strands the protagonist in her own body or her own house
- Chosen adult company, non-sexual, fades before anything is depicted
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Bellwether is a market town of eleven thousand on a slow brown river, with a north ward, a river gate, and a bell tower whose hours mark the time the ward is shut.
- ~37 min
- 8237 words
- 4 branch points
- 4 endings
- 42 plays
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Content notice (7)
- Quarantine and enforced confinement
- Hunger and food rationing
- Mass civic distrust and a shared false agreement
- A public record used to erase a group
- Institutional pressure and a public vote
- A hard moral choice that no option resolves
- Illness described without any symptom being visible
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Carrow is a wool village of thirty-nine houses on a ridge, with one tower, one bell, and one noon a day.
- ~11 min
- 2528 words
- 2 branch points
- 3 endings
- 47 plays
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Content notice (9)
- death of a child
- parental grief
- child death, non-graphic
- village guilt
- blame without malice
- mourning
- cold, dark winter setting
- no romance
- no sexual content
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
In Gallowmere, a northern town on the trade road, a body is a document.
- ~57 min
- 12723 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 46 plays
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Content notice (7)
- Death and burial described at trade level
- Burned remains and their recovery
- A house fire with six adult deaths
- Financial ruin of four households
- Self-destruction offered and declined aloud
- Institutional pressure and a public naming
- A hard moral choice with no clean option
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The Windward Reach is a hard western coast of sea stacks and low cliffs, fourteen miles long, with four lamps burning on it in a chain and four families who have kept them for six generations.
- ~56 min
- 12346 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 42 plays
teenfantasycoastalcost-magicquestions-and-answersfamily-obligationfound-documentinherited-institutionmoral-ambiguityworking-class-protagonistrestrained-fantasy-craftno-sexual-content
Content notice (7)
- Destructive magic with a named, unrefusable price
- Loss of a family word and a family name
- Institutional habit of thirty-one years examined in a public meeting
- A boat and a season of work lost, described
- One branch spends a year of another living person's life
- Sleet, gale, and a winter deadline
- Chosen adult company, non-sexual, nothing depicted
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Ashcombe keeps its bees on a south wall above the low orchards, and a hive that one family has tended for six generations becomes a small god with a job, and the job is the orchard.
- ~16 min
- 3637 words
- 2 branch points
- 3 endings
- 52 plays
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Content notice (7)
- An unpaid debt owed to a small god
- A family that read a contract wrongly, then rightly
- A sixteen-year-old worker, never a romantic interest
- Institutional pressure and a collector's office
- A blight year and a lost crop
- A bound four-year labour term with no exit
- A permanently unanswerable question
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Camp Lullaby Reunion
~600 min · 5 endings
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