The police in Atlanta are pretty infamous for being not that good at their jobs. Yeah sure, the crime rate’s lowered a lot since the

“You really thought I wouldn’t show up?” Lamar asks, meeting Karina and me at the street corner we’ve been waiting at for the past half-hour.

“Well, that was pretty uneventful,” I say, stepping off the auto-conbini after it FINALLY makes a new stop somewhere else in the city. It took

“Why do they think we can just get rid of robots and make all the old jobs come back…” Karina grumbles. “It’s ridiculous. They can’t

The things I do for friendship. Sometimes those things involve risking my life and fighting giant cyborg assassins. Sometimes those things involve humiliating myself in

“Soda…?” “Well, specifically, I’m looking for Magitek Soda,” Karina says. “Magitek… Soda…” Sorry, I’m not exactly in my most eloquent mood after sprinting down a

cover art by Emmanomia “Please help. Corner of Peachtree and Juniper.” That’s all it says. And that’s all I need to know. Karina is in

And now for the epilogue, or rather, the punchline of this story. It turns out I’ve won the mystery prize from The Rotten Peach’s crossword

Back at the garage, Kevin O’Conner has already gone home for the night. I had assumed he lived here or something, since he is caretaker