Blasting to Nowhere

'Blast! I seem to have ruined my trousers.' Deep within the tangled wires of a laboratory under renovation, the interminably perturbed Dr Bertram Everbridge shook the mangled scraps of fabric from his right ankle begun counting his toes as a matter of precaution. ‘Five on the left, five on the right. Even as a matchbox.’ … Continue reading Blasting to Nowhere →

Pieces of Equipment

'If this works, I will send you the equipment back straight away. If it doesn't, you'll get the pieces.' That's what every scientist said as they scrawled their name onto the rental lease with their stolen biro, 'Hope to have it back to you soon.' Holding a notably fragile 1986 resonance spectrometer under their arm, … Continue reading Pieces of Equipment →

Mad Men Making Progress II

'You see, my previous assistant was the type of fellow who was adjacently smart,' mumbled Dr Bertram Everbridge in a distracted gesture to the otherwise empty air around him. Turning with a lockstep of militant precision, the crazed scientist began to pace along his favourite walking rut all the while rambling about old bits of … Continue reading Mad Men Making Progress II →

We Shot the Moon

‘Well, it’s a bit of a problem,’ Adah began, abruptly coughing her words in an attempt to dislodge the knot of toast that still dwelt at the back of her throat from breakfast.It was hot, the struggling air conditioner had suddenly become a drone of irritating voicelessness and as forty eyes from a collective twenty … Continue reading We Shot the Moon →

Mad Men making progress

Dr Bertram Everbridge was mad. Not really mad at anything particular but flagrantly, windmill storming, mad within his own mind. This particular strain of derangement occurs within small sections of the scientific world who, sick of day to day statical analysis, lash out far beyond what crazy sock fridays can allow them. ‘Nuclear stuff! … Continue reading Mad Men making progress →