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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
- 95 plays
matureadults-onlyexplicitcrimecrown-courtfraudsuspended-sentencedomesticproceduralwitnessimprisonment-precursorsrural-englandsecond-act-aftermathworkplacebritishdialogue-ledsecond-person-agency
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
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Tenth Suspension
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Halvard B is a surface maintenance platform on the Ravn Field, 214 km west of Stavanger in the Norwegian sector, holding three subsea wellheads and a manifold in service through the winter gas nomination.
- ~236 min
- 52060 words
- 8 branch points
- 5 endings
- 54 plays
science fictionoffshorehard SFnuclear engineeringindustrialNorth SeaMATUREexplicitslow burnadultlove storyno betrayalclosed castworkplacetwo personrationed intimacyloss of mission
Content notice (8)
- a workplace ration of intimacy between two colleagues, agreed out loud in the room and scheduled on a public whiteboard
- an explicit written adult sexual encounter at twenty past four in the morning, inside an engineering argument
- a professional relationship destroyed between two people who were both good at the job, in the open, with no betrayal
- the loss of a shared project, a subsea field, to a vibration figure that nobody could have argued with
- a reactor operated outside its certified envelope, and the procedural consequences of doing so
- institutional indifference expressed as procedure: a cancelled core, an expired certificate, a berth left unallocated
- a medical drug count performed in public, and a recompression chamber booked for a reason nobody states
- a hard moral choice with no option that costs nothing
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The Partner Who Left A Draft
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Iona Braithwaite, 41, is a litigation partner at Kessel Blythe LLP, a firm of fifty-eight fee earners on the third floor of Ardleigh House in Merevale, and the lead on *Fenn v Rundle Bank plc*: three thousand nine hundred and four members, two hundred and twelve million four hundred thousand pounds,
- ~158 min
- 34869 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 50 plays
adultmatureprofessional-romancelitigationestate-planningnuptial-settlementconsentcompetitive-courtshipdocumentarymoral-ambiguityworkplaceno-minors
Content notice (7)
- A will that disinherits the woman who made it
- A nuptial settlement made without independent advice
- Professional falsification of document authorship
- A deleted or lost career and a dissolved partnership
- A member of the public reading private words in open court
- Sex between two consenting adults, written, including a standing order about stopping that is renegotiated
- A group of 3,904 people paying more because of a private decision
· 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
- 41 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 Consent Order
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In England and Wales you cannot end a marriage quietly.
- ~227 min
- 49973 words
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
- 44 plays
matureadults-onlyexplicitfamily-lawconsent-ordercourtroomproceduralmarriageseparationdomestic-violence-reported-to-nobodyinstitutionalsecond-act-aftermathdomesticworkplacebritishdialogue-led
Content notice (8)
- Domestic violence that is not reported to the police and never is
- A court finding about a hand on a throat, entered in a public document
- A permanent legal restraint on sexual relations between spouses, agreed to in advance
- Sexual content between adults, with consent stated aloud, in a house that is being emptied
- A professional conduct finding and a partnership put under review
- A judgment and a register entry that are public and permanent
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that does the damage
- A marriage that continues after a document has ended it
· 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
theatrebackstageunderstudyaffairmarriagemarriage-in-jeopardyworkplaceconsent-forwardmatureexplicitcontemporaryensemble-castrural-and-small-townno-fantasyno-supernatural
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 Address on the Form
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Carys Ollerton, 41, has been the senior clerk of the family division of Denby County Court for four years and a clerk in that building for eleven.
- ~466 min
- 102604 words
- 10 branch points
- 4 endings
- 58 plays
matureadults-onlyexplicitcourtroomproceduralprofessional-ethicsinstitutionalimmigrationmarriagesecond-act-aftermathdomesticworkplacemother-daughterbritishdialogue-led
Content notice (8)
- A removal direction sought against a mother and upheld in three of the four futures
- Institutional deportation described from a notice, a determination, and an airport at dawn
- A woman of twenty-one who is the subject of a court application and is not a party to it
- A professional conduct referral and a two-year loss of a clerk's certificate
- A marriage of nine years that ends in three of the four futures
- A daughter who does not return in two of the four futures
- A hearing aid, a mould, and a cost of a hundred and ninety-five pounds
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that does the damage
· 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
- 49 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 Selvage Coast is a long run of chalk and timber, and every chart drawn of it is a promise the world has to keep: surveyed, fair-copied by an engraver who never saw the field book, signed by two hands, and sealed.
- ~50 min
- 11123 words
- 6 branch points
- 4 endings
- 45 plays
mature-17-plusfantasycartographychart-magiccoastalinstitutional-pressureprofessional-ethicssmall-townworkplacemoral-ambiguityrestrained-fantasy-craftno-explicit-sexual-content
Content notice (8)
- A false sealed chart and a record that is wrong on purpose for twenty years
- Coercion through a job, a signature, a wage account, and other people's licences
- Named self-interest and a career ambition pursued against the public record
- Relocation of four hundred and six people in the rain
- Nineteen deaths, described and counted, including two named adults
- A career-ending disclosure and a resigned commission
- Loss of a harbour's legal position and of two hundred and eleven men's work
- Chosen adult company, non-sexual, bounded, fades before anything is depicted
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
Verrin Hollow is a hill town built around a wizard's glasshouse: one long room under a pitched glass roof, two hundred and forty feet from the fire wall to the cold end, standing on the shoulder above the town where the hill gives up and the streets stop.
- ~5 min
- 1257 words
- 2 branch points
- 3 endings
- 46 plays
all-agesfantasyworkplacehorticultural-magicquiet-fablemoral-ambiguityrecords-and-ledgersinstitutional-ethicsno-sexual-contentno-romance
Content notice (5)
- A falsified official record and a cut page in a bound ledger
- Institutional pressure and an admission of wrongdoing
- A hard moral choice that no option resolves
- Labour conditions and a rota with a named person on it
- A child character, non-sexualised and in no adult role
· art review pending · play time estimated from word count
The station needs two engineers. The contract recognizes one woman.
- ~65 min
- 5215 words
- 12 branch points
- 4 endings
- 108 plays
dark science fictionadult dramaworkplace thrillerromanceSevern Repair Station in orbit around the fictional gas giant Ananke, June 2168
dark science fictionspace stationadult dramaidentitylabourqueer romancecloningworkplacebranchingmoral ambiguity
Content notice (9)
- duplicate identity and threatened decommissioning
- bodily autonomy
- industrial space accident
- sleep deprivation
- workplace coercion
- adult relationship tension
- sex implied and cuts away
- no instructional reactor detail
- no slurs written out
Nine workers, one unsigned deed, seventy-two hours before the seal.
- ~65 min
- 6841 words
- 12 branch points
- 4 endings
- 130 plays
adult dramaworkplace dramaromancelegal dramaLydon, an invented port city, May 2027
adult dramasex workworker cooperativequeer romancepropertyprivacyworkplacebranchingmoral ambiguitysecond chance
Content notice (9)
- legal adult sex work discussed
- economic precarity
- licensing pressure
- client privacy
- death and inheritance
- adult relationship tension
- sex implied and cuts away
- no sexual acts depicted
- no slurs written out
Seven dead workers have valid bookings. Checkout is at eight.
- ~55 min
- 6450 words
- 10 branch points
- 4 endings
- 121 plays
spookyfolk horroradult dramaromancemysteryVeyr, an invented coastal city, 17-18 February 2027
spookyghost storyadult dramahaunted hotelworkplacequeer romancegriefinstitutional cover-upwinterbranching
Content notice (8)
- 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
A white stake is an argument. A signature lets people walk.
- ~150 min
- 15159 words
- 18 branch points
- 5 endings
- 137 plays
literary fictionadult dramaprocedural tragedypost-war political dramathe Kestrel Valley in the fictional Republic of Drenava, 1-14 October 2026, eleven years after the armistice
adult dramaproceduralhumanitarian deminingpost-warworkplacemoral injuryinstitutional pressuresmall communitydisabilityslow burnmoral ambiguityliterary fiction
Content notice (10)
- landmines and explosive remnants of war
- a demining accident
- graphic traumatic injury and amputation
- blood and medical aftermath
- wartime detention and disappearance discussed
- institutional pressure and workplace investigation
- hearing loss and disability
- grief and survivor guilt
- no instructional ordnance detail
- no slurs written out
She certifies what the works can do. The sale decides what those words mean.
- ~180 min
- 12392 words
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
- 127 plays
literary fictionindustrial dramapolitical dramaVeyra, Republic of Orsava, January to October 1997
adult dramaindustrial dramapolitical fictionworkplaceprivatisationlabourmoral ambiguitypost-socialistslow burneconomic coercionliterary fiction
Content notice (8)
- economic coercion and wage theft
- unemployment and threatened poverty
- political and corporate corruption
- labour conflict and strikebreaking
- a nonfatal industrial crush injury
- alcohol and tobacco use
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- class prejudice and xenophobia shown through behaviour; no slurs written out
The state mark is hers. So are the eleven cases attached to it.
- ~180 min
- 12613 words
- 14 branch points
- 5 endings
- 129 plays
literary fictionworkplace dramaprocedural thrillerromanceBellwether, Harrow County, five days in July 2027
adult dramaproceduralindustrialfood safetysmall townworkplacemoral ambiguityslow burnclassimmigrationlabourliterary fiction
Content notice (11)
- industrial animal slaughter and carcass inspection
- foodborne illness and hospitalisation
- repetitive-strain injury and disability
- worker compensation
- employer-tied visas and immigration enforcement
- identity-document scrutiny
- mass layoff and plant closure
- poverty and institutional pressure
- alcohol use
- sexual content implied, cuts away
- bigotry shown through behaviour and consequence; no slurs written out
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