- Title
- The Green Room List
- Genre
- Mystery
- Premise
- A theatre runner preparing dressing rooms for an amateur awards night finds one nominee has been removed from every printed running order, but their name is still taped to a chair.
- Specific job/task
- The runner must lay out envelopes, place cards and bottled water for forty guests before doors open.
- Precise setting detail
- The green room has peeling black paint, a rack of mothballed costumes and a fire-exit sign that flickers every few minutes.
- Mundane system complication
- The event organiser insists the old list must be followed because the revised one was never signed off.
- Decision that turns the story
- The runner keeps the missing nominee’s place card visible and forces the organiser to explain the deletion in front of the committee.