Stuart Grigg

First, Do No Harm

Meera’s father had always wanted her to become a doctor. She remembered him smiling as they read “Anatomy for Kids” together at bedtime. She even began to study medicine as an undergraduate, but switched courses to computing. Her excuse was that cutting into a cadaver had repulsed her. In truth, she was only repulsed by […]

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Political Capital

“This is the only remaining record of Operation Becket,” said the spook, before she dropped the letter on the minister’s desk and disappeared into the night. Left alone in his imperial relic of an office, he read the summary aloud like a child learning the words.   “The contract has been fulfilled.”   The remainder

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