Story Burst 2
This week’s flash story:
Fool
We had to hide the fact that aliens were here. Eventually, someone was going to hack into the protected network, discover all the images, and distribute them. Our denials would be their amplifiers.
So we leaked it, then bragged about taking tea with the ETs.
Some truth will fool them.
Dr. Huges explains where Rat A went
Answer Key: Episode 2
After a moment, Rat A popped back in the exact same spot. Even with the disruption, it still got the best time ever. The team then used brain imaging equipment, and—most unfortunately for the rats—dissection equipment to map both brains. The conclusion: the way to amplify the quantum component in rat consciousness had been discovered. Amser Hughes and her team were showered in accolades, awards, and funding.
Talk show hosts and even fellow scientists quickly turned the conversations to where Rat A went when it disappeared. Was it the same rat who returned? A parallel Universe rat? Amser was a natural at appeasing interviewers with technical jargon nonsense while turning the attention back to funding. She basked in the spotlight of attention.
This same spotlight created a shadow, a backstage area, where Halit Adem made the second discovery.