Particular ServiceParticular Service · registry
Documents out of the world of the series. One shelf is a story told entirely in paperwork, two centuries before the serial. The other is the paperwork behind the chapters you are reading now.
Each document goes to the email list first. The archive receives it a few weeks after.
A continuing story · read in order
Two centuries before Jo Byrne, the war was British and the Service was new. An English captain answers an invitation at the end of the first file; an American smith answers the same one in the second; both are walking toward one morning in January 1815. Each reads on its own, and neither spoils the serial.
Greybriar
Section Three
Records
Farthing
Jane
S3/Hist-11
Toulon, April 1814
England made a legend of the woman who won the battle of the age, and got her wrong. Two men who served with her were asked what she was actually like. One of them was in love with her.
Greybriar
Section Three
Records
Iron
Miles
S3/Hist-12
New Orleans, December 1814
A blacksmith stood alone against five of the General’s own men and lost. The city crowned him anyway, under a name a lady invented in front of five hundred witnesses.
Next in the strand · The Ghost of the Raisin
Reference · 2006
Paperwork from the serial’s own century: the rules the Service works by, and the files it keeps on people.
Greybriar
Section Five
Standards
The
Greybriar
Codex
GB/5-2
Handbook
What the Service can measure, what an officer may do with the measurement, and what the body charges for the work. Start here.
Greybriar
Section Three
Subject file
Auchincloss,
Victoria
S3/Subj-114
Marseilles, 2006
Two photographs, one margin note, and a fifteen-year-old girl who has been missing three weeks. Pairs with chapter three.
Cut · not part of the book
Scenes that did not survive the edit, with a note on why each one went. Nothing here is canon.
From the drafts
of Book One
The
Kitchen
A deleted scene
Jackson Tran
Greybriar, December 2006
Six people cooking a Christmas dinner they do not get to eat. It was chapter four until I cut it for the sin of nothing happening in it.
DistributionDistribution · first issue
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