Edition 9 2025, September
A report by Michael Chen Diary of Linda Harper, February 21, 1992 When I came back—shaking, distraught, barely able to think—they were waiting for me. Marcus and the others. And a few people I’d never seen before. Older. Serious faces. “Welcome to Alpha Iota Tau,” said a woman with silver-gray hair. She smiled, but her eyes didn’t. “Alpha Iota Tau stands for Ad impletionem tendens.” Marcus translated for me: “Striving for fulfillment.” That was the test—and I had passed.
Who’s the helper no one can thank? In Merrimack County, someone seems to have a knack for knowing the right thing at exactly the right time. For a while now, there’s been talk of a good spirit watching over the region — or a bad one, depending on which side of the law you’re on. When a malfunction threatened operations at Peterson Chemical Plant this summer, an anonymous caller phoned in with an eerily precise warning. When a planned break-in at the Middlesex County Department of Justice was stopped, the credit again went to an anonymous tip. And when several inmates escaped from the County Jail last month, a key call came in just minutes beforehand — though not every fugitive was caught.
Excerpt from the “Almost Complete Guide to Temporal Capers, Paradoxical Shortcuts, and the Question of Whether the Past Is Even Reliable”, 2nd revised edition. Time Jumps Noun | /taɪm d͡ʒʌmps/ The temporary suspension of linearity, usually uninvited, sometimes intentional. They cause events to unfold out of the expected order – a kind of impolite treatment of cause and effect.Occur most often in science fiction, nightmares, family gatherings, and near unsecured quantum fields.
I don’t know how many of my readers are actually aware of what happens between “Yeah, the book is written!” and “uff, it’s ready for layout or even print” … or from “Yeah, cool idea for a book” all the way to “uff, the manuscript is finished – in draft.” Maybe I should have started with the latter – which already drops us right into the subject: the – at least for me – dreaded revision = to look at again (literally translated as “look again”), in order to correct or improve.
Continuum: The Final Hours + Outer Signals + What's Next? That's exactly what this article was supposed to be about: the important final hours of a campaign, the excitement of completing the first trilogy, the announcement of a very cool new project, and further insights into the future of Space World. Instead, I'm sitting here after a few hours of sleep, yelling at my computer, eating weird leftovers of something, and feeling completely exhausted. And so the new title for this article emerges: Was it a no-brainer?
Or: How AI Programs the Perfect Cappuccino – and Why That’s Dangerous The Space World Research Institute has found in its latest study: 34.87% of people are only functional in the morning because their brain receives coffee as a system update – in other words, every third person. According to the study, the human dependence on coffee resembles less a preference and more a software patch. “Without coffee, consciousness doesn’t boot up stably,” the report states dryly. Not the smell, not the caffeine – it is a built-in driver, and without the coffee kick, parts of the brain simply won’t start up!
There is this moment. This one moment when someone decides that something is more important than the promise they made. More important than the person they swore allegiance to. More important than the values they supposedly stand for. We call that betrayal. But what is betrayal, really? Is it the scientist who sells state secrets to another nation? The friend who reveals a secret that was entrusted to them? The politician who betrays their voters? The partner who cheats?
Her picture-perfect life is a lie. The target on her back is real. In a world of PTA meetings, soccer games and wine moms, Stella Meyers fits right in. No one in her ritzy Connecticut suburb suspects the photographer who captures weddings, parties and fundraisers by day is robbing people blind at night.
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