Grass (short story)

Grass

Main character(s):

Lucia Cailloux

Main setting:

United States, 1805

Key crew

Publisher:

Mad Norwegian Press

Writer:

Lawrence Miles

Release details

Part of:

Dead Romance

Release date:

September 2001

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Grass was a short story published in the Mad Norwegian Press reprinting of Dead Romance. It was originally printed in the September 2001 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-Fiction.

1 Summary
2 Characters
3 References
4 Notes
5 Continuity
6 Footnotes
7 External links

Summary[]

to be added

Characters[]

Lucia Cailloux
Broken Nose
Thomas Jefferson
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark

References[]

to be added

Notes[]

When this was first published in the September 2001 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-Fiction, it was the first mention of George III's mammoth.
Miles cited Damon Runyan as an influence on this story.^[1]

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.

Footnotes[]

↑ This Town interview

External links[]

Grass at the Faction Paradox wiki

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