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The Jury Is Out For The Night
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Wrenmoor is a city of 126,000 in the invented county of Netherwold, and on the night of Wednesday 22 July 2026 a woman was killed in a terraced house four streets from the ring road with a fire iron taken off her own hearth.
- ~232 min
- 51049 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 88 plays
matureadults-onlycrimemurder-trialenglish-crown-courtproceduralmarriageno-secret-no-betrayaldomesticconsentinstitutionalrestrained-procedural-craft
Content notice (8)
- Murder trial and a stated killing
- Access to a household address by a neighbour on the night of a killing
- A concealment of evidence and perjury
- A conviction of the witness and a term of imprisonment
- A curfew, a tag and the threat of recall to custody
- An estrangement between married partners over a statement in a court
- Explicit sexual content between consenting adults, said out loud, with an agreed stop word
- Explicit language about a body
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The Day After The Verdict
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Corwen Lyle is thirty-nine.
- ~346 min
- 76138 words
- 8 branch points
- 5 endings
- 96 plays
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Content notice (9)
- A conviction and a prison sentence, and the fact of one that cannot be overturned
- A woman under examination about her own liability, deferred to a date in December
- A man injured in an industrial incident and a coroner's inquest into his injuries
- An insurance claim and civil proceedings in a public court
- A mother asking her son for money
- A town blaming a woman for telling the truth
- A household whose freehold is in one person's sole name after eight years
- A hard moral choice where no option is clean and every branch closes a door
- Sexual content between adults, with consent stated aloud, in a house that is one of the document locations
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Two Hours and Eleven Minutes
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Alderfen City Police keeps one cold room on Marrow Lane and two people on the night rota.
- ~287 min
- 63345 words
- 15 branch points
- 4 endings
- 93 plays
matureadults-onlyexplicitcrimepolice-proceduralforensic-photographycollision-investigationgriefmarriageprofessional-ethicspaperworkinquest-and-cpsno-betrayalnobody-was-hidingmoneynorthern-englandno-minors
Content notice (10)
- Death of a 21-year-old woman and the mortuary examination of her body
- Graphic but non-gratuitous injury description from a Home Office post-mortem
- A body recovered from a drainage culvert after eleven days
- A fatal collision on a slip road and a death that a coroner does not take
- A family home after a death: a chair, a jumper, a receipt for four pounds fifty
- A career ended by an honest disclosure
- Institutional pressure, a conduct referral, and a professional standards process
- A judicial review that finds nothing
- An explicit sexual scene between two adults that stops part-way through on an agreed word
- A hard moral refusal, spoken out loud, twice, in rooms with witnesses
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The Bridge Is Rated For Forty
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The Nethra Viaduct carries four lanes and a footway 212 metres over the tidal River Kell, eleven weeks and three days from a vote that will certify it for another eleven years without anybody standing on it.
- ~214 min
- 47222 words
- 10 branch points
- 4 endings
- 56 plays
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Content notice (5)
- 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.
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The Prosecutor Signed It
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Leeds, 2026. The Crown Prosecution Service prosecutes on behalf of the public.
- ~149 min
- 32804 words
- 9 branch points
- 4 endings
- 51 plays
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Content notice (10)
- 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
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She Has Been Here Before
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Ashlade Point is a decommissioning site on the Cumbrian coast, a Magnox station that stopped making electricity in 1995 and has been stopping ever since, and Mairi Skene, 34, is its document controller.
- ~230 min
- 50606 words
- 19 branch points
- 5 endings
- 51 plays
maturetime-travelsci-ficrimedecommissioningnuclear-proceduralrecords-officecumbriacoastal-noirinstitutional-cover-upromanceexplicitlong-formliterary-proceduralno-slursno-minors
Content notice (8)
- 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
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The Witness List
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DI Frank Ollerton is fifty-six and has twenty-eight years in Wrenfield CID, eleven of them as a detective inspector, and he owns Unit 4 of the Fall Street lock-ups with the flat above it let to a woman at five hundred and twenty-five pounds a month.
- ~251 min
- 55245 words
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
- 58 plays
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Content notice (8)
- 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
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In Naples, every ruined house is worth something to the wrong person.
- ~190 min
- 36467 words
- 14 branch points
- 7 endings
- 116 plays
historicalcrimeromancepolitical dramatragedyNaples, February to July 1982
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Content notice (10)
- earthquake trauma and child deaths referenced
- building collapse and graphic injury
- organized crime and intimidation
- heroin addiction, overdose, and withdrawal
- domestic coercion
- institutional corruption
- arson and death
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- religious conflict
- forced displacement and witness exile
Rome eats because somebody signs for the missing grain.
- ~190 min
- 29117 words
- 15 branch points
- 7 endings
- 97 plays
historicaldramaromancecrimepolitical thrillertragedyOstia and Portus, Roman Italy, spring to autumn 62 CE
ancient romehistorical dramapolitical thrillerbisexual protagonistlove trianglefreedwomanport cityinstitutional corruptionslow burnclasscrimetragedy
Content notice (10)
- slavery and coerced labour
- institutional hunger and poverty
- financial exploitation and debt
- graphic fire injuries and death
- assault and custodial violence
- alcohol misuse
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- class and gender subjugation
- corpse recovery and drowning aftermath
- bigotry shown through behaviour; no slurs written out
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