Halloween, 1987 Ethan tells the story: The Totem was stolen from the PsyTech Lab overnight on October 31. We were in shock. Tom was upset, but he knew he needed to remain calm. He arrived at the office and quickly sat, calmed himself, then went deep. He gathered...
Beneath the waves An excerpt from Madame Saks diary: It was April 1912. I was just a baby then.Mom kept the telegram from Dad and told me the story years later. "Greetings from across the pond. An opportunity of a lifetime. White Star Steamer. Boarding the RMS Titanic...
Tom and I had been friends since college. We were classic 'nerds', socially awkward, not very popular, but it didn't affect who we were. We both landed 9-to-5 jobs at the PsyTech Lab after graduation and were assigned to the Totem project. They were entry-level positions,...
A CREATIVE FICTION:by Christian Joore In the late 1960s, a rare discovery of a beehive over 3,000 years old was found in an Inca Tomb in northern Peru.A Dutch-American archaeologist named Dr. Jacobus Nies, along with his wife Margreet, are attributed with the discovery. The 'hive' is...
The Lab was moving to the East Coast. They put Trish and I up in a small apartment in the city. It was only for a year, but long enough for Trish; she wasn't a city girl. She didn't know how to connect to it. Neither...
“An injured crow in the grass near the field,” she recalled. “Blood was stark against its shiny blackness. My heart ached for it.”...
Trish and I inherited a cottage at Lake George, NY.It's serene, our place to unwind: no laboratory, no testing schedules or reports—just us.We would get up early, sit together, and watch the sunrise burn away the fog over the lake. These were special moments, but...
We arrived early morning; sky was clear and bright. Tom went up to the control room to get started while Trish and I emptied the Van. We had never been here before, so this was all new. We were excited. But we only had a few...
Much of the facility looked like a prison, except for the lounge. It was a fun space, everything was orange and brightly lit. The furniture looked like it was from outer space. We loved it. The ceilings were high and curvy, all the way back...
The Office 1977: I would often see Tom out in the yard on smoke breaks as my window was right there. And the Totem was always with him; it followed him everywhere. We often joked that it was his little pet. Tom was brought in through Berkeley;...