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1	Series of short stories by {{Tropers/Crowqueen}}, part of DarthWiki/TheNineLivesOfMichalPiech series but showcasing the backstories of some of the characters outside the scope of the main story arc.
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3	Started in 2012 as a way of promoting the main series to curious readers.
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5	In alphabetical order, the stories are:
6	* ''Conversation in a Hospital''
7	* ''The Man In The Window''
8	* ''The Orderly''
9	* ''The Province of Salvatka versus Antoni Kurak''
10	* ''Sharpears''
11	* ''Sniezynka (Snowmaiden)''
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13	More to follow.
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15	Dedicated to the pre-revolutionary world, the stories follow Michal, [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Woolf]], Stefan Mlynarczyk, Jola Bielanska, Jadwiga Lane, [[ColonelBadass Zbigniew Piech]] and his lover Konstantin Prilukhov, and others.
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17	''Vignettes From The New World'' will be written in a similar way about the post-revolutionary Commonwealth, but no stories have been written for that quite yet. Watch this space.
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19	[[AC:Conversation in a Hospital]]
20	* AnimalThemeNaming - in-universe. Neither Woolf, whose name has been suppressed in his notes to 'DW', nor his doctor will admit their names - for reasons which are made clear in the story.
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22	[[AC:The Man In The Window]]
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24	* ModernMajorGeneral - Rysiek Piech. Michal's grandfather, and in ''The Man in the Window'', a dotty old man and an embarrassment to his son Wladek, who just happens to be a high-up military commander with quite a lot of field experience who has foreseen the next [[GreatOffscreenWar war]].
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26	[[AC:The Orderly]]
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28	* FlorenceNightingaleEffect - Kostya is not a nurse, but in looking after Zbych's material needs forges the same sort of bond.
29	* GreatOffscreenWar - In ''The Orderly'', we see part of it - from the vantage point of a private detailed to muck out the main hospital a hundred miles behind the lines.
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31	[[AC:The Province of Salvatka versus Antoni Kurak]]
32	* CourtroomEpisode - The main character is the perp, not the lawyer. No HangingJudge here, though; given the defendant's social status, it's actually a ''relatively'' fair trial.
33	* HeyYou - [[{{DarthWiki/Achava}} Kurak]] is on trial for the theft from Hoeness. He preens himself when he hears himself referred to as ''Mr'' Kurak, something unheard of either at home in the villages or in the city.

Context DarthWiki / VignettesFromTheOldWorld