Story Burst 4
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This week’s flash story:
Fence
The team was pulling the flying practice drone up when the pilot saw a “dark mass” underwater. He described a “kinda circular” shape, definitely not a submarine. We put fences up along the beach. I was given first watch. The waves lulled me to sleep, but the splash woke me.
Answer Key: Episode 4
Halit pulled Iffan Roberts, a fellow researcher, aside.
“Iffan, help me run a recreation of Amber’s experiment?”
Iffan was very tall but hunched himself over to try to appear smaller. His pencil thin arms hung from his T-shirt; his knobby elbows protruded from his sides. He jabbed his hands in his pockets and looked nervously over his shoulder. “Ah, I’m not sure, Hal—is it ok to use lab resources for this? I mean, the experiment’s already been conducted….” Iffan was a rule follower, not so hot with innovation, but the ideal man to be in charge of equipment.
Hal, on the other hand, had a swirling black pit of ambition at his core. In other scientists, this type of drive would force them to lunge at opportunity, backstab when necessary, push to the front. In Hal, the desire could only be filled with a type of glory that came to mankind once or twice in a millennium. Hal was going to be that man in his time, no matter what. “No big deal, Iff, I’m onto something here that could be another huge breakthrough. I’ll take the fall if anyone gives us trouble.”