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The Back Office Inventory
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The Marram is a forty-one-room hotel on Marine Parade in Brinmouth, a coast road town on the north coast where the population went from 4,180 in 2015 to 2,940 in 2024 and the season has stopped being a season.
- ~167 min
- 36790 words
- 12 branch points
- 5 endings
- 49 plays
adultmaturecontemporarycoastalhospitalityproperty-salesmall-businessmarriagebetrayaladult-affairconsent-explicitmotel-and-coastledger-and-inventorymoral-ambiguitystaff-collectiveno-minors
Content notice (8)
- 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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
matureadults-onlyexplicitprofessional-kitchenrestaurantproceduralledgerfinancial-coercionconsentbetrayalworkplacedomesticlong-formunreliable-recordbritishdialogue-led
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- A partnership and a reputation withdrawn for something the protagonist said out loud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 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
The White List
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Seventeen numbers. Two false identities. One signature that cannot be taken back.
- ~175 min
- 11311 words
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
- 38 plays
literary fictionprocedural tragedyadult dramaCalder Vale, 8-9 October 2026
adult dramaproceduralrural tragedyveterinary medicinemoral ambiguityworkplace dramafarmingbetrayalinstitutional pressureliterary fiction
Content notice (7)
- animal death and livestock disease control
- graphic aftermath without instructional killing detail
- professional coercion and false certification
- financial distress and loss of a family farm
- betrayal by a trusted colleague
- alcohol use and grief
- no explicit sex; all characters are adults
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Consecutive
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The court hears only what you say it heard.
- ~165 min
- 27431 words
- 13 branch points
- 7 endings
- 40 plays
literarylegal dramatragedypolitical thrillerContemporary — eleven years after the Vaskaran clearances
courtroominterpreterwar crimeslanguagemoral injurybetrayalbranchingliterary
Content notice (8)
- All characters are adults.
- Mass atrocity, forced displacement and drowning described in survivor testimony
- Institutional coercion; a witness pressured about her own language
- Graphic recollection of injury and corpse recovery, where earned
- Moral injury, complicity and professional ruin
- Alcohol misuse under strain; insomnia
- Desire and an old obligation between unequal parties; sex cuts away at the door
- No instructional detail for weapons or intrusion. No slurs written out.
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Her sentence belongs to the Crown. Her hours belong to a man.
- ~195 min
- 38388 words
- 10 branch points
- 7 endings
- 105 plays
historicalliterary dramaromancecrimetragedyVan Diemen's Land, August–December 1832
van diemens landhistorical dramaconvict assignmentbisexual protagonistlove trianglepenal labourinstitutional rotbushrangingcolonialismslow burnbetrayalliterary tragedy
Content notice (12)
- convict labour and enslavement-like coercion
- colonial dispossession of palawa people
- pregnancy under custodial coercion
- graphic corporal punishment where earned
- sexual coercion discussed
- imprisonment and solitary confinement
- bushranging and violent death
- institutional corruption
- pregnancy loss discussed
- alcohol dependence
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- no slurs written out
Eleven musicians, one biscuit tin, and fourteen minutes about the cement ships.
- ~90 min
- 16555 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 85 plays
historicaldramamusicromancepolitical thrillerNigeria, Lagos, February to December 1976
1970slagosnigeriamusicpolitical thrillerlove trianglequeer romancecoupbetrayalafrobeat
Content notice (8)
- state violence, detention and executions
- political persecution and censorship
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- queer relationship under legal threat
- alcohol and cannabis use
- police brutality
- infidelity
- grief
Six hours a night, three currencies, no passport.
- ~100 min
- 16957 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 91 plays
historicalnoirromancepolitical thrillertragedyShanghai, International Settlement and French Concession, January to April 1927
1920s shanghaihistoricallove trianglequeer romancegangstersrevolutionstateless refugeebetrayaltragedyjazz age
Content notice (8)
- massacre and political mass killing, graphic
- opium trade and addiction
- sex work and coercion
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- police corruption and surveillance
- racism and colonial hierarchy depicted through behaviour
- torture referenced
- grief and displacement
The city has three months of water and four caliphs a year.
- ~95 min
- 20234 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 95 plays
historicaldramaromancewartragedyAl-Andalus, Córdoba, 1013 CE during the fitna
al-andalusislamic golden agesiegehistoricallove triangleengineeringbetrayaloccupationtragedypoetry
Content notice (7)
- siege warfare, graphic violence
- massacre of civilians (offscreen and reported)
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- religious persecution
- torture referenced
- destruction of libraries and cultural property
- thirst and dehydration
Eleven weeks of poisonings, ninety days of grain, one woman allowed to look at the bodies.
- ~105 min
- 22301 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 92 plays
historicalmysterythrillerromancetragedyNorthern Song China, Kaifeng, winter 1126 to spring 1127
song dynastyhistorical mysterysiegeforensicslove trianglebetrayalfaminepolitical thrillertragedywomen's work
Content notice (8)
- detailed autopsy description
- poisoning deaths
- famine, starvation and one implied instance of survival cannibalism (offscreen)
- siege violence, graphic
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- coercive marriage law
- child endangerment (a son's fate, offscreen)
- torture referenced, not depicted
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