Stories tagged “Guinea Pig”

  • Proof

    “We have access to criminals, specifically criminals on death row. Except instead of an injection, you’ll do the deed. You understand that we have to know that you can do what you say you can do. We need proof.” There were a thousand ...

  • The Recruiter

    The lobby was empty. A bored man sat behind a desk, idly thumbing through a magazine without really looking at it. He was wearing a simple turtle-neck but I could tell he was a military man. It wasn’t the shaved head, bulky frame, or piercing eye...

  • The Next Step: Bureaucracy

    This is what I signed up for. Lab rat or assassin. The U.S. government wasted a lot, but I figured I was a new commodity. I didn’t know the half of it. “So how many of us are there?” I was genuinely curious. How many had come before m...

  • Three Truths in Five Minutes

    I waited until the door closed behind her before asking, “What’s her problem?” “She’s probably afraid of you. It’s a scarier world than it was a couple of months ago. Knowledge is one thing, proof is another.” ...