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Eleven guests, twelve beds, one hundred years, and a bride who knows what she was made for.
- ~97 min
- 21341 words
- 33 branch points
- 5 endings
- 83 plays
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Content notice (5)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in four scenes, one per route
- body horror: living grafts, a graft bed, a surgical theatre, a wall of photographs and a jar of wedding rings
- a bride dying of the correction that made her, and a death on the page
- a house that has corrected its guests for one hundred years and a ledger that counts the ones who did not leave
- a flooded causeway, a rising tide, and a woman standing in the water
· art review pending · audio review pending · play time estimated from word count
The bay has gone red, the drowned are still answering, and the night operator has eight hours to decide which line she keeps open.
- ~107 min
- 23578 words
- 32 branch points
- 5 endings
- 86 plays
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Content notice (6)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in four scenes
- graphic body horror: the drowned still speaking, a birth sac in the tide, tagged bodies in a morgue
- a hard eight-hour deadline with a rising tide and a ferry that leaves at six o'clock
- on-page deaths of named adults and a hospital count that keeps changing
- drowning, flooding, and a town cut off from the mainland
- grief, a brother lost in the water, and a mother who will not explain who she calls
· art review pending · audio review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Resonance
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One thousand one hundred and seventy-six hours of oxygen, forty-nine days of relief, and the one thing she never asked the alien keeping them all alive.
- ~115 min
- 25447 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 96 plays
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Content notice (5)
- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a hard survival deadline: a finite oxygen reserve, a ration shortfall, and a nine day gap before relief
- a bounty placed on a sentient species by a human colony
- isolation, confinement, and a body mark that does not fade
- a scientist falsifying a research record
· art review pending · audio review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
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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
No cover art yet
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
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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
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Six Weeks Up Front
No cover art yet
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 Cartographer's Sleeper
No cover art yet
The new route only appears on the maps of people who have stopped planning to leave.
- ~35 min
- 3985 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 87 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe autumn of 1964, in the invented border March of Ordale
adult fantasycartographyborderlandsworkplace dramaromanceconsentpublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- career displacement
- fear of permanence
- family obligation
- coercive licensing rules
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Tunnel of Borrowed Light
No cover art yet
The tunnel stays bright only while the dark belongs to someone else.
- ~35 min
- 4268 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 90 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe winter of 1981, in the invented coastal road tunnel district of Ander Senn
adult fantasyroad tunnelworkplace dramaromanceconsentdebtpublic recordslabor exploitationmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- coercive bargains
- grief
- labor exploitation
- surveillance through surrendered shadows
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Clockmaker's Platform
No cover art yet
Every clock in the terminal agrees. None of them is honest.
- ~32 min
- 2924 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 90 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancecivic mysteryThe autumn timetable change of 1979, in the invented rail city of Tolbury
adult fantasycivic infrastructurerailway stationworkplace dramaromanceconsentevidencepublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- coerced departures and legal pressure
- institutional surveillance of commuters
- relationship mistrust and a deliberate lie
- tense adult romance
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no minors
- no real-person likeness or voice
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Nightwatch Locomotive
No cover art yet
Aid first, record after, and nothing promised that was not asked for.
- ~35 min
- 3165 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 90 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe winter of 1981, on the fictional Cairn line in the invented mountain district of Sarrow Vale
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Content notice (9)
- adult-only confirmation
- injury aftermath without graphic detail
- grief
- emergency scarcity
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Borrowed Platform
No cover art yet
The platform is the address, and the address is the only thing they cannot take.
- ~35 min
- 3951 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 49 plays
adult dramacivic romanceworkplace dramaliterary fictionThe winter of 1979, in the invented river city of Ashlade
adult dramarailwaycivic architectureromanceconsenthousingpublic recordsinstitutional neglectsecond chancebranching
Content notice (11)
- adult-only confirmation at the start
- housing loss and displacement
- institutional neglect by a city works department
- separation and renegotiation of an adult marriage
- grief over a parent and an inherited obligation
- adult relationship tension
- gentle adult intimacy that cuts away
- no explicit content of any kind
- no unclothed characters
- no one under eighteen is depicted
- no voice or likeness taken from any real individual
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The Copper Warning
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The message is in her own hand, and it is dated eleven days from tonight.
- ~35 min
- 2976 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 46 plays
adult contemporaryworkplace dramaromancelight speculative mysteryThe autumn rains of 1961, in the invented industrial river city of Ansel Water
adult contemporaryindustrial cityworkplace dramaromanceconsentfatepublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (10)
- adult-only confirmation
- accident threat, implied not depicted
- workplace blame
- institutional cover-up
- fate imagery
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Glassmaker's Passenger
No cover art yet
The line belongs to the district only when every name in it can say yes.
- ~35 min
- 3446 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 51 plays
adult fantasyindustrial dramaromancefolk mysteryThe winter of 1981, in the invented enclosed glassworks district of Annis Furnace
adult fantasyglassworks districtindustrial dramaromanceconsenttestimonycooperative ownershipmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (9)
- adult-only confirmation
- industrial exploitation
- coercive surveillance
- workplace injury and entrapment
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Station of Lost Direction
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A train arrives only after you admit you are lost.
- ~35 min
- 4405 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 55 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe late autumn of 1981, in the invented upland interchange of Kestrel Halt
adult fantasymountain railwayworkplace dramaromanceconsentgriefmaps and recordsbranchingchosen home
Content notice (10)
- 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
· art review pending · audio review pending
The Last Carriage Museum
No cover art yet
The carriage ran to six recorded stops. The panel has room for seven.
- ~35 min
- 5035 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 48 plays
adult dramaworkplace dramaromancehistorical mysteryThe late 1980s and the present day, in the invented national transport museum of Harrowmead
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Content notice (9)
- 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
· art review pending
The Quarry of Borrowed Names
No cover art yet
The line reopens only when no worker pays with their name.
- ~35 min
- 2510 words
- 4 branch points
- 3 endings
- 56 plays
adult fantasyworkplace dramaromancefolk mysteryThe winter of 1978, in the invented northern quarry district of Veyr
adult fantasywinter railwayworkplace dramaromanceconsentevidencepublic recordsmoral ambiguitybranchingsecond chance
Content notice (9)
- adult-only confirmation
- coercive institutions
- threatened name-transfer
- workplace danger
- adult relationship tension
- implied intimacy cuts away
- no explicit sexual content
- no nudity
- no real-person likeness
· art review pending
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
maturescience-fictioncrimeengineeringstructural-monitoringdigital-twinpublic-procurementprofessional-ethicsinstitutional-conspiracycrime-without-a-culpritromanceslow-burnbritish-coastaladults-onlyexplicit-content
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.
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
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
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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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Loop Is the Wedding
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Ashcombe Mill is a four-storey stone corn mill on the north bank of the River Lugg at Twyford, Gloucestershire, built in 1804, sacked mill and three grindstones, ceased commercial milling in 1971, and licensed for civil marriages by Stroud District Council since the eleventh of March 2019.
- ~208 min
- 45945 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 54 plays
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Content notice (6)
- 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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Every Tuesday for Four Years
No cover art yet
Pendraig Time Standards Laboratory is sixty-one metres into a disused slate quarry under the valley at Llandysul, in Ceredigion, and it holds the national secondary time standard, a caesium fountain clock, a hydrogen maser and one hydrogen maser's worth of heat.
- ~171 min
- 37828 words
- 11 branch points
- 5 endings
- 55 plays
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Content notice (7)
- the implied withdrawal of consent and its consequences, written on the page
- a relationship loss described directly, without softening
- no minors and no minors-coded characters
- no violence and no injury
- no drug use
- no slurs written out; bigotry shown only through behaviour and consequence
- explicit adult intimacy between consenting adults only
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Every word she carries for the dead costs her a memory of them.
- ~90 min
- 14586 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 86 plays
fantasydramaromancetragedySecond-world river town, pre-industrial
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Content notice (7)
- 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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You can only learn a technique from someone trying to kill you with it.
- ~100 min
- 23021 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 81 plays
actionfantasytragedyromanceSecond-world river city, an industrial-adjacent duelling age
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Content notice (7)
- graphic violence and permanent injury
- amputation
- character death including a lover
- alcohol abuse
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- self-destructive behaviour
- grief
A Thousand Kites Above Nacre
No cover art yet
A kitewright and her estranged navigator must stop a treaty that would turn one island's homes into another fleet's altitude.
- ~150 min
- 19120 words
- 15 branch points
- 5 endings
- 45 plays
romantic fantasyskyship adventurepolitical fantasyrelationship dramathirty-six hours before the crossing dawn
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Content notice (8)
- adult fantasy romance
- estrangement
- relationship strain
- political coercion
- displacement
- high-altitude peril
- storm injury
- consensual intimacy and fade-to-black
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