Grass (short story)

Grass was a short story published in the September 2001 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, making it the first published entry in the Faction Paradox spin-off series, discounting the original printing of Dead Romance itself as a Virgin New Adventures novel. It was subsequently reprinted in Mad Norwegian Press' reprinting of Dead Romance as an explicit entry in the Faction Paradox series.

Publisher's summary
Grass marks Lawrence Miles's first appearance in our pages, although he notes that he has previously published work in various anthologies, magazines, comic books, and computer games. His recent work includes a board game concerning Imperial Rome.

Grass ruminates on American history and what might have been…

Plot
to be added

Characters

 * Lucia Cailloux
 * Broken Nose
 * Thomas Jefferson
 * Meriwether Lewis
 * William Clark

Worldbuilding
to be added

Continuity

 * Catherine II's gift of a mammoth to George III is mentioned. (COMIC: Political Animals, PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
 * Jefferson's expedition to find mammoths in the American midwest is mentioned in PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.
 * PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet previously established that the French Shadow Directory uses the term "Caillou" to denote individuals around whom world itself would shift and buckle.