Once these works are read, a painful realisation remains: recorded history is just that — recorded history.
Friction: A Trilogy of the Painfully Possible
Archival fictions interrogating the silences that shape history.
This repository contains three works presented as recovered materials.
They are works of fiction constructed using archival, scholarly, and documentary forms.
Each explores a different mechanism by which history, institutions, or individuals produce irreversible outcomes not through excess, but through restraint — silence, omission, positioning, and delay.
The works are:
Operation Seamless: A Recovered Archive, 1888–1901
Jack the Ripper — Victor…
Once these works are read, a painful realisation remains: recorded history is just that — recorded history.
Friction: A Trilogy of the Painfully Possible
Archival fictions interrogating the silences that shape history.
This repository contains three works presented as recovered materials.
They are works of fiction constructed using archival, scholarly, and documentary forms.
Each explores a different mechanism by which history, institutions, or individuals produce irreversible outcomes not through excess, but through restraint — silence, omission, positioning, and delay.
The works are:
Operation Seamless: A Recovered Archive, 1888–1901
Jack the Ripper — Victorian London, erasure, and conspiracy. 1.
Victoria Unpublished: Does fiction restore what history omits?
Queen Victoria — Editing monarchy and the ethics of omission. 1.
The Scalpel Slipped: ... and the world bled out
World War I — Diplomatic precision and the architecture of catastrophe.
POSTSCRIPT (Read last.)
They are not sequels. They do not share key protagonists or settings. They share a method.
Reading Notes
Each work is self-contained. They may be read in any order, though the listed sequence moves from micro-history to geopolitical consequence. The apparatus is part of the narrative.
This repository format is intentional. Version control, plain text, and public access mirror the mechanisms the works examine.
All materials in this repository are dedicated to the public domain under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0 Universal) dedication.
This archive is complete as presented.
Andreas Breidenthal