The bus pulled onto the shoulder to report the bleeder on the side of the highway. A car had clipped the man’s leg, which bent awkwardly to one side. His hands had frozen into fists […]

The bus pulled onto the shoulder to report the bleeder on the side of the highway. A car had clipped the man’s leg, which bent awkwardly to one side. His hands had frozen into fists […]
No one on the street noticed the man with the backpack as he strolled up the steps to the government building. No one turned as he held the door for a young PhD candidate and […]
It was trash day. Blue bins lined the residential street like silent mourners while dark clouds rolled overhead making threats they couldn’t keep. Nio and Quinn sat in an unmarked government vehicle three streets down […]
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“I hate being in the city.” Nio made a beeline for the coffee stand, which had a short line. “Why can’t we stay somewhere else?” Quinn followed. “Not feeling any better, I see.” “Meaning?” “Nothing, […]
“I’d like to make a collect call to a solo register.” “Name, please.” “Samizdat Kellner.” “Passphrase?” “Asta la vista, baby.” It was her eighth attempt to guess Semmi’s new passphrase—assuming he hadn’t deleted his account […]
It’s not hard. It’s not as easy as, say, baking a cake, nor even as easy as assembling IKEA furniture, but it’s definitely closer to those than to making a nuclear bomb. No exotic materials […]
The bus pulled onto the shoulder to report the bleeder on the side of the highway. At some point, a car had clipped the man’s leg, which was bent awkwardly to one side. His hands […]
The video conference device droned. “Show time.” Quinn hit the button and the screen split into six boxes. The first was the conference room at the FBI office in New York. Seven agents, […]
—nothing if not ambitious. Like its namesake, it sought to answer some of the biggest and most persistent questions in science—particularly, how much of who we are is determined by our genes and how much […]