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The Borrowed Head

The Borrowed Head

By: P.B. Mills
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The making of Augustus: The Lost Commentaries of Julia Agrippina — daughter of Germanicus, sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero — which Tacitus read, cited once, and which vanished for nineteen centuries. Discover more at pbmills.com.© 2026 P.B. Mills Drama & Plays
Episodes
  • VII. The Cup Is the Remedy
    17 Sep 2026

    The one the last three have been pointing at. Discovery, denial, collapse, and then a turn that is not about her father at all: three documents in one volume that no source, ancient or modern, has ever had together.

    A work of fiction. The manuscript and the people who found it are invented.

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    23 min
  • VI. Both Versions
    16 Sep 2026

    The thesis episode. Four pairs of documents that contradict each other, kept on facing leaves for forty-four years by a woman who would not destroy either — and, after her death, by somebody else who worked out why.

    A work of fiction. The manuscript and the people who found it are invented.

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    21 min
  • V. Not One Document
    15 Sep 2026

    Nobody dies in this one. What a Roman woman legally is (nothing), the machine she built instead, the channel underneath it, and a man standing up in public to be praised for her work while she has no form of words in which to object.

    A work of fiction. The manuscript and the people who found it are invented.

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    20 min
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