Schleifer

Privet Mitchell Anders turned on the water in the empty shower room. Usually, nobody showered alone, simply because so many men had to share the one shower room, but right now most of the troops were at the USO show, watching a special stripper show. The men of the United States Army either wanted to see the show, or wanted to be seen seeing the show, but Mitchell didn't care about being seen. He hated hiding in the closet, but he announced he was gay, he'd be discharged. He wanted people to know, but he needed to stay and protect people. He needed to serve. The stream of hot water hit his head, and the thick sand that seemed to cling to ev

The air was thick with tension in the large room. Monitors throughout the room showed green symbols against a black background. To an outside observer, these symbols would seem like gibberish, but the men and women watching these screens knew exactly what they were looking at. The room was silent except for the sounds of two men. These two men's voices seemed to be coming through a radio, and that's because they were. The men that everyone was listening to were not in the giant room in Huston, Texas, where massive computers, their combined power less then that of a modern day video game system, filled the room. The men were not only absent fr

The Rio de Janeiro Supercollider in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America was the largest Supercollider in the world. As Andrew Shawn Huxer and Mary Isabel Sara Tori-Yans monitored the particle streams of the Supercollider, Andrew noticed something wrong. “Mary, come have a look at this!” Andrew said, almost panicking. “What’s wrong Andy?” responded Mary as she circled around to see what Andrew was looking at. “I thought I saw a flux in the particle stream, but it seems to be fine now.” “We should probably double check it, just to be sure.” “Yeah, go ahead and do that.” “Uh oh