This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella.
“Timo has been missing for a few days.” I interrupt Nusci as she fills the air between us with trivialities. The thought had been [...]

This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella.
Had that been advice? Or a threat?
That word. I am distracted, lost in thought, as I round the corner leaving Erikstrassa and [...]

This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella.
Sixday eve and Timo is still missing. I wasn’t counting, but that makes five days with no word. And the odd thing [...]

This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella.
Zech corners me on the way into the lab. Zech, and his slicked, needle-striped hair are unavoidable as I walk across the front [...]

This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella.
I hate this city. Beyond this window is a four-storey drop to the alley where a service bot is sweeping. Beyond this window [...]

This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella.
Nacks gets really quiet for most of the next day because Timo is still missing. She tells us that she had stopped at his [...]

This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella.
Timo doesn’t show up for work today and my chance to tell sympathetic coworkers about my perplexing visit with Nusci is thwarted by a [...]

This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella.
I’ve ordered a tall glass of cold ginger tea imported, as Nusci tells me, from the plantations around the Greenshales. “If you only knew [...]

This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella.
I’m waiting for Nusci in the High Street, sitting on a stone bench just across from Dragon’s Teahouse. The famed establishment is located in [...]

This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella.
The next day Ludek and Nusci stop by Building Three to check up on the progress of the new models. Ludek hasn’t worked with [...]

This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella.
It’s two days after the accident and Timo seems to be his usual self again.
Yesterday, we had endured a gradual progression of his [...]

This is But One Fragment Five Hundred Words Long Constituting Part of Something Much Larger, With At Least One New Episode Per Week, And May Be What We Call A Serialized Novella.
Part 1
Just before lunchtime, Timo inverts a logic circuit on one of the new models and the whole lab is evacuated to let the [...]