A surveillance photograph: a woman walking, seen from behind, on a wet street at dusk.
A Novel · A Registry File

Filed UnderNo One

She kept the country's secrets. The country kept one — about her.

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For eleven years, Margaret Vane sat at the Registry and decided what the country was allowed to see. She was good at it. Then she opened a ledger she was meant to file and not read — and found it was quietly killing the living by writing them down as dead. She did the correct thing. She reported it. By morning she had never existed.

A faceless figure standing in a shaft of amber light.
The cover of Filed Under No One — a woman seen from behind on a wet London street, photographed from inside a car.
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What the record says

PF 604584 · Vol. II

Margaret Vane spent eleven years at the Registry deciding what the country was allowed to see — the watcher who chose the blind spots, posted the guards, aimed the lights. When she finds a ledger that files the living as dead and reports it, she is struck from every register that ever held her. For eleven weeks she is no one. Then she goes back in — past her own guards, through her own blind spots — to take back the proof that she was real.

Observation Report · B.5 · F.153/22
0907   SUBJECT left place of employment.
0914   SUBJECT at bus stop, Stop C; read timetable.
0958   SUBJECT entered the public library; remained until 1105 hrs.
1112   purchased nothing of note.

ANALYTIC CODA:   No unusual contact observed. Routine behaviour.
— signed in blue-black ink
i · The watching
A surveillance contact sheet of the subject.
Observation — subject, p.m. · F.153/17
A surveillance frame at a bus stop.
Stop C · 17.46 · withdrawn as ordered
ii · The unmaking
An index card stamped STRUCK OFF.
Struck off — 14.3.74
A document redacted with an amber wash, text ghosting through.
Retained — § 3(4)
A file marked with a red W beside a too-clean twin.
Watch — and the twin that hid the gap
A worn buff personal-file cover.
Personal File — PF 604584 · Vane, M.
An almost-blank leaf bearing only a serial number.
Substitution leaf — only a number left
The back of a photograph, bearing only a file number.
Verso — PF 604584, no name
A typed line, 'I think he has told me the truth', corrected by hand to 'He had not.'
Minute — “I think he has told me the truth.” · later, another hand: “He had not.”

She is the keeper of files, herself filed and shut. Filed under no one.

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A vast records corridor at night.
Companion Game · Live Now

The book stops at the threshold.

The game is the night she goes back in. A free, top-down stealth game in the same dark — post the guards, aim the lights, slip the blind spots she drew herself.

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