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• 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

• a woman who has not told one person in eleven years, and a man who has not asked one question in eleven years
• grief, prolonged, in a house with an Aga and a gravel drive
• a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing

• 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

• adult-only confirmation
• coercive station authority
• pressured signatures
• grief and family obligation
• displacement
• adult relationship tension
• implied intimacy cuts away
• no explicit sexual content
• no nudity
• no real-person likeness

• adult-only confirmation
• war aftermath and displacement
• grief and delayed mourning
• public memory and contested records
• separation and adult relationship tension
• implied intimacy cuts away
• no explicit sexual content
• no nudity
• no real-person likeness or voice

• livestock mortality on a mountain pass, one animal described going over an edge
• official documents, a public meeting, land deregistration and a named criminal complaint
• a woman under institutional pressure to sign a number
• consensual adult intimacy written on the page, with the consent spoken aloud
• an envelope of unlabelled money received and never spent
• prejudice against a family whose name is not on a register
• an animal named and counted as a person is mourned

• the death of a man of nineteen in a road collision, described only as an age, a date and a track that cannot be played
• a man's cremated alive in another man's name and another man's ashes under that man's headstone
• a family of forty-one at a graveside for a man who was not there
• a widow sent a sympathy card every December for seven years about a son who was alive for every one of them
• a record corrected in one place and left wrong in another on purpose
• a man asked a question by a police officer in a churchyard and unable to answer it
• a hard moral choice with five futures and no option that costs nothing

• Time repetition and loss of autobiographical time
• Injury without violence, and a medical record read aloud in a corridor
• A form signed in a room with five people watching
• A public record naming two people
• Explicit consensual adult intimacy, with an in-world stop word that is used
• A death is not depicted and nobody dies; a previous marriage that lasted fourteen months is stated in dialogue

• death and mortuary settings
• body misidentification and cremated remains
• domestic abuse and coercive control recalled
• fraud, wage theft and gambling debt
• exploitation of undocumented workers
• family estrangement and grief
• alcohol use
• implied sexual history, cuts away
• bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out

• the death of a spouse, described from a post-mortem report and from what people said afterwards
• grief, prolonged, in a house with fourteen bedrooms
• a body pledged as security for a debt by a deed its subject drafted herself
• a marriage recorded as a compliance obligation and read aloud to strangers
• public disclosure of an intimate private record
• a professional and financial ruin that is not prevented
• explicit adult intimacy between a widow and a man who acts for the people she owes
• a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing

• 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.

• childhood death
• grief
• suppressed grief
• unpaid labour
• small amounts of money

• 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

• 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

• death in an industrial accident
• ghosts and supernatural cold
• institutional cover-up
• grief and family guilt
• medical distress from cold
• adult relationship tension
• sex implied and cuts away
• no slurs written out

• industrial disaster and graphic injury
• death, corpses and coerced postmortem labour
• body desecration and loss of bodily autonomy
• grief and death of a spouse
• exploitative contracts, poverty and institutional corruption
• addiction to pain medicine shown through consequence
• sexual content implied, cuts away
• violence may be graphic where earned
• bigotry by class and legal status shown through behaviour; no slurs written out

• grief and bereavement throughout
• memory loss depicted as loss of self
• drowning, murder, and a concealed cause of death
• suicide
• sexual content implied, cuts away
• domestic violence in the past
• child death (a delivered word, offscreen)

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• 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

• terminal illness and medical decline
• asphyxiation and industrial death, graphic
• suicide
• medical rationing
• sexual content implied, cuts away
• grief and anticipatory grief
• workplace injury caused by the protagonist

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• stylized fantasy combat and injury
• grief and terminal illness
• consensual adult romance, fade-to-black
• coercive demonic bargains