Spadebound (Free version)

A short visual novel about a marriage changing hands.

Your wife has worked out what she wants. She is not asking for permission. She is telling you it is happening, and watching to see what kind of man you turn out to be about it.

Twenty-five scenes across twenty weeks, from the first conversation to the life the two of you end up living. Around twenty minutes to read.

One choice shapes the whole book. Before it begins, you decide whether you support her or resist her. This is not a difficulty setting. Every scene is written twice, and she speaks to you completely differently depending on which man you told her you were.

• Support her, and she brings you in. She wants you dressing her for it and holding her afterwards.
• Resist, and she stops consulting you somewhere around the third week. The story gets colder.

You also choose which of three women she is. The story stays the same,  only her face changes.

Smaller choices along the way quietly move four counters. Where those land decides which of three endings you receive. There is no correct one.

What this is A linear cut of a larger project, made to see whether the story holds up when read straight through, without the systems around it. It is free, finished, and it ends properly.

What this is not The full Spadebound. There is no weekly planner, no phone, and no live systems, those belong to the main project. It is also not explicit. The writing is charged and suggestive, and it stops short of graphic.

Feedback is welcome, especially on whether the two modes feel as different to read as they were to write.