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The Arrangement at Long Fell
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Eleven clauses in his ink, and not one line of it in hers.
- ~120 min
- 26560 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 95 plays
contemporaryromanceadult-intimacynegotiated-power-exchangedisabilitynorthumberlandcare-workmoneyclassdebtslow-burndomesticmaturebooktok
Content notice (5)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a negotiated power exchange written down by one party and not the other
- a spinal injury and the daily management of a long-term condition, never depicted in detail
- a family business in arrears and a bank's deadline
- money, class, and the power that a wage gives one person over another
· art review pending · audio review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Collector's House
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She signed the guarantee at twenty-two and never asked whose money it was.
- ~124 min
- 27306 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 94 plays
contemporaryromancedark-romancemorally-greyadult-intimacydebtlegalnewcastlenorth-east-englandworking-classslow-burnmoneymaturebooktok
Content notice (6)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a parent's death off the page and the paperwork of a funeral and an estate
- a debt bought at eleven pence in the pound, an interest-only schedule, and a county court hearing in prospect
- a bailiff's charge and the threat of goods being taken from a family home
- the sale of a mother's house weighed against keeping a father's name out of the record
- debt, class, and coercion in the terms of an arrangement
· art review pending · audio review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Four O'Clock Ice
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Eighty-eight pounds fifty a block, thirty weeks, and a name in the diary that is not hers.
- ~127 min
- 27957 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 94 plays
contemporaryromancesports-romanceadult-intimacynorth-east-englandice-rinkcoachslow-burnmoneyforced-proximitymaturebooktokworking-classsecond-chance
Content notice (5)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a career-ending knee injury and an operation that was never affordable
- a league fine, a points deduction, and a squad losing its place
- a council vote to close a municipal rink and a public subsidy under review
- money kept secret inside a working relationship, and the cost of saying it out loud
· art review pending · audio review pending · play time estimated from word count
Six Weeks Up Front
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Seven hundred and eighty pounds in an Asda bag, and a name she never put on anything.
- ~125 min
- 27519 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 91 plays
contemporaryromanceadult-intimacyworking-classnorth-east-englanddebtcare-homegriefslow-burnsecond-chancedomesticmaturebooktokmoney
Content notice (5)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a parent's death off the page and the paperwork of a funeral
- a mortgage in default in prospect and a care-home fee that cannot be met
- the sale of a family business and a father's residential care weighed against it
- grief, class shame, and a cash tenancy with no legal protection
· art review pending · audio review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
- 48 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 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
- 64 plays
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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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Map of Small Forgivenesses
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Nineteen settlements under a reservoir, one sheet to certify, and the officer of record's mother on the wrong side of the line in it.
- ~122 min
- 26806 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 44 plays
contemporary dramaadult road storyinstitutional critiquearchive and memoryworking-adult fictionContemporary
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Content notice (8)
- displacement and drowning of a valley by a dam, referenced and never depicted
- the deaths associated with an impoundment, carried as a number
- forced removal of four hundred and six households
- a family memory shown to be a memory of the wrong event
- institutional record-keeping as the mechanism of a fifty-five-year falsehood
- statutory limitation that closes a claim in 1976
- a public recusal and the loss of a professional position
- a compensation schedule that keeps a resident in place as a condition of payment
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
- 46 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
· 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
- 43 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
- 39 plays
contemporarydomesticnorthern-englandmarriage-of-convenienceinheritancecare-economyfamily-obligationadult-intimacythree-adults-one-houselegal-proceduralmature
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
- 43 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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Nine weeks of harvest, eleven hectares, and a winemaker who cannot smell her own cellar.
- ~90 min
- 18358 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 80 plays
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contemporarynew zealandwinegriefterminal illnesslove trianglequeer romancemulti-povdisabilityfamily business
Content notice (7)
- terminal illness and end-of-life decisions
- assisted dying discussed
- disability and sensory loss
- financial precarity and bank foreclosure
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- alcohol use around a trade that runs on it
- grief and anticipatory grief
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