Pick a premise
Every premise is a painting and a cast with one seat for you. Or write your own: give the narrator a seed and a cast, and it does the rest.
House of Cards
Four strangers, one rigged card game, and a priest who keeps winning by accident.
The Lighthouse Keepers' Wager
Two rival keepers, one bet, and a lighthouse lens that vanished overnight from the top of a locked tower.
A Season at Fairweather
A matchmaker has six weeks, five guests and one very public wager to see somebody married.
The Great Pudding Bake-Off
Somebody put salt in the champion's sugar. The Little Wending Pudding Prize will never be the same.
The Dragon Sitter
Mind the egg for one week, the dragon said. It hatched on the first morning.
Murder at the Mapleford Fête
The prize marrow judge is dead in the tea tent, and the whole village had a reason.
The Mystery of Camp Tamarack
Lights over the lake every night at eleven, and every morning another canoe is gone.
The Grand Tour of the Outer Planets
Twenty-one nights among the gas giants, all inclusive, and the navigation system has just been bought by a rival cruise line.
Pirates of the Brass Sea
The most wanted ship on the Brass Sea has a hold full of stolen music boxes and a navy officer in the brig.
Return to Sender
Someone in Little Pellow is writing gorgeous love letters, and every single one is going to the wrong address.
Snowed In at the Edelweiss
An avalanche closes the only road, a priceless brooch vanishes from the safe, and then the lights go out.
Ghost Light
The oldest touring company in the country has one last season, one last play, and one critic who can save it.