This Is How You Lose the Time War

by Amal El-Mohtar

hence the bomb threat. Crude, but effective.

Some days Blue wonders why anyone ever bothered making numbers so small; other days she supposes even infinity needs to start somewhere.

Fortunately, geniuses understand that young men are often fools.

(Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.)

Red knows her own weaknesses as well as anyone. She presses too hard, breaks what she would embrace, tears what she would touch to her teeth.