Short fiction
Romance, with a hypothesis.
Love stories for people who fall for a good mind first — set in labs and observatories, lecture halls and server rooms. Quiet, unhurried, and meant to be read in one sitting.
More stories
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The Half-Life of Wanting
Two physicists, one decaying isotope, and a count that will not slow.
The detector clicked once, then twice, then settled into the patient arrhythmia of a thing coming apart. Priya had heard the sound ten thousand times. She had never heard it the way she heard it now, with Daniel's shoulder a careful inch…
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Asymptote
She could get infinitely close to telling him. That was the whole problem.
The thing about an asymptote is that the curve gets nearer and nearer to the line and never, not once in all of forever, touches it. June had drawn a hundred of them on a hundred whiteboards. She understood them the way she understood her…
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Open Source
He documented everything except the one variable he couldn't name.
Commit message: *fix off-by-one in the loop.* Commit message: *refactor, sorry.* Commit message: *it's 3am and you were right about the cache, you're always right about the cache.*
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The Observer Effect
An astronomer learns that some things change the moment you look at them.
At four in the morning the dome was the coldest place on the mountain and the closest thing Cassie had to a church. She came up to be alone with the sky, which had never once asked anything of her, and she had been doing it for years…