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Chapter 22: Static Discharge (Part I)
In the dark of the hallway the traces of the gremlin leaping through the wires in the walls stood out like a sore thumb—if that thumb also happened to be radioactive and emitting sparks. Surprised people poked their heads out of their offices, stumbled out into the shadowy corridor, and generally proved to be obstacles [...]
Chapter 21: Line Noise (Part II)
“In the flesh—well, in the manifest audible at least,” her older brother said. “When Zach called me the other day, he led me to believe that things were much worse than they seem. Of course, he’s always had a difference sense of responsibility than you do. Always caught up in your books and classes and [...]
Chapter 21: Line Noise (Part I)
The Dean of Engineering was a man built like a ship’s mast. Tall—even though he was sitting behind a desk—with coat-hanger shoulders that punched his suit shirt out like the sail of a ship, his chest a mere billow in the wind. His thin face sported a sharp nose and a vorpal chin, which jutted [...]
Chapter 20: Exam Day (Part II)
Zach walked silently by her side without glancing at her. His companion fell back a few steps and let them walk together with some privacy and spent his time looking at everything else. As Elaine watched, Zach worked his jaw, frowning as if in deep concentration, but she could not discern what that might mean. [...]
Chapter 20: Exam Day (Part I)
Elaine pulled another stick of pocky out of her pocket and tried to suck on it discreetly. Only three sticks left in her pocket, her fingers counted them methodically. A murmur of rustling pages whispered in the classroom, pencils clicked on paper, and the lids of her eyes threatened to droop at the lack of [...]
Chapter 19: When Drama Attacks (Part II)
Elaine sank down onto the bed next to her. “Do you remember back in school, Sophomore year?”
“You were still so much a geek that you carried your graphing calculator around with you like you needed it to breathe for you and I was a cheerleader.” Frog nodded to herself. “The rest of the squad thought [...]
Chapter 19: When Drama Attacks (Part I)
Elaine returned to her dorm to find a storm brewing outside of her room. Zach stood with his back to her, but Frog had her eyes fixated on him so narrowly that she didn’t notice Elaine’s arrival. Frog’s fists were balled up, her shoulders hunched; a broad frown cut Zach’s face like a slash as [...]
Chapter 18: Somewhere That Infinite Deep (Part II)
Janice pinned the Emily Early for President button to her lapel with pride. She beamed at it. Certainly the best decision she’d made for her entire year. Emily would make an excellent student president—and she knew it in her heart. Ordinarily, Janice wouldn’t have cared so much about student council politics, but it just made [...]
Chapter 18: Somewhere That Infinite Deep (Part I)
Hadaly awoke—or at least, a bit-of-Hadaly did. When the network suddenly went death it severed her connection with herself. At first it felt like she had been stretched over a great distance. Thoughts became a slow, laborious torpor. Dragging across an abyssal rift. Picoseconds stretched into nanoseconds into milliseconds—and then nothing. Like a light going [...]
Chapter 17: The Early Case of Emily Strange (Part III)
Emily took a sip and shook her head vigorously. “Fuck no. Huh. This all started before I brought him on as my campaign director and he’s done nothing but stay honest with me. When I screw up, he tells me. I guess, I look to him for advice in a lot of things. So when [...]
