by Bill Combs Part I: The Contraction Gabe Whitman moved through the morning like a ghost in his own life. The alarm chirped at 6:05...

He sat alone on the ledge, legs dangling over the edge like a child teasing gravity. Seattle spread below him, draped in the last violet...

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I. The Gift and the Isolation Amari was born in the eye of a solar storm. They said the sky split open that night — the stars blurred...

Ethan Pierce sat in his office, surrounded by books and papers, staring at his computer screen with an intensity that made his eyes ache....

In the late autumn of 1925, deep in the Black Forest of Germany, a young Albert Einstein sought solitude in a rustic cabin tucked away...