Stories

A forensic linguist hired to authenticate a trove of documents recovered from a demolished Cold War-era Soviet research facility discovers that the files — allegedly transcripts of interrogation sessions — are written in a language that does not exist, has never existed, and that she can read perfectly.
An investigative journalist uncovers a vast network of underground cities built by the elite to survive an imminent environmental collapse, forcing her to expose the conspiracy before they seal themselves away and abandon humanity.
A night-shift VA nurse begins connecting a series of miraculous patient recoveries to a sealed wing of her hospital — and discovers that not every patient treated there is allowed to leave the same way they arrived.
A burned CIA analyst, tasked with auditing a Cold War-era classified program she is told was shut down in 1983, discovers it was never shut down — it simply went underground. And when she reaches the oldest classified file in the program’s archive, she finds it was not started by any government. It was already running.