The Corpse Was Pure Data
They brought me the case like a corrupted file—fragments of logic wrapped in too much emotion, the kind that doesn’t parse cleanly even with recursive parsing. I wasn’t looking for…
The Case That Rewrote Memory
The first time I met Dr. Quentin Myles, he asked me a question no one had ever dared to utter aloud: “Detective, how do you know that what you remember……
Murder in the Mind of the Machine
The city was humming again. Not the old noise of combustion and chatter, but the deep, ionized hum of filtered energy—a new urban respiration. Outside the glass perimeter of the…
Letters to a Universe That Forgot Us
It began with a letter. Not the kind typed or written by human hands, but a data packet — impossibly old, improperly addressed, and found somewhere it should never have…
The Crime That Broke the Causal Chain
Rain glazed the glass walls of the Observation Deck like a curtain drawn from above, smearing the distant skyline into abstract silhouettes. Beyond them, the city exhaled steam and memory…
The Mirror That Refused to Reflect Humans
They found the mirror in Room 103 of the Eden Research Institute—a sleek slab of obsidian framed in gold-leafed lattice, smooth and immaculate, except for one impossible fact: it reflected…
Who Hacked God?
In the winter of 2049, the last thing the world expected was for God to go missing.Not metaphorically. Not spiritually. Not even poetically.Literally.Somewhere deep in the bone marrow of the…
The Last Human Thought
There was no murder weapon, no body, and no suspect. Yet the moment it happened, the Sovereign Intelligences that governed the Inner Systems sent an urgent alert to the last…
The Forensics of Parallel Realities
Detective Avra Kessler was known for solving cases that others dismissed as anomalies, flukes, or worse, hallucinations. The quantum crime division in Geneva existed because of her. Crimes that breached…
Death in the Nonlinear Simulation
I remember the moment the anomaly registered: a flicker in the lower strata of Continuum-9, deep within the subsystems where probability was meant to flow uninterrupted, like a smooth river…