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This is not her kind of place, and yet, here she is, grasping hand grips attached by metal bars to flat iron embossed with numbers and letters in increments of five: 5 lbs, 10 lbs. Years later, magazines will embolden their readers, cheerfully proclaiming gyms to be a “great place to meet people!” For now, it’s not yet a thing. So when the guy from Bost...
Chapter 1 – The Breach
The hum of machinery echoed through the Martian underground lab as Dr. Anirudh Verma monitored the vacuum energy reactor — a towering construct of superconductors and oscillating fields. Designed to harvest energy from spacetime itself, it was the crown jewel of human scientific endeavor.
But tonigh...
In the scrub outside Alice Springs, where the red dust sticks to your teeth and the horizon shimmers like a mirage, Dr. Elsie Marlowe unpacked the latest shipment from the International Temporal Ecology Bureau. The crate, labelled “Experimental Chrono-Kangaroos handle with caution”, thumped ominously against the metal floor of her converted research van.<...
You run towards the bus stop, waving frantically. As the bus pulls in, you notice that the route number sign is blank. You look around the shelter, but there are no timetables, no maps, nothing to indicate which buses stop there or where they go.
The driver scowls at you. “Are you getting on or not?”
“Uh, yeah. I’m going to the station.”
...Virginia checked her phone, and sighed in relief. The garden centre was still open another fifteen minutes. A shame to skip post-work lemonade with the girls, but it was her brother’s birthday this weekend.
She locked her car, a 2005 Callisto, and headed inside.
Ovid’s was the best garden centre in town. Dark roses and anemones, violets, and ma...