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   Fiction Self ControlIt was just how the world worked: you get to time travel, but do you end up chatting with Cleopatra? No, you end up back at the same coffee shop where four years of deadlines slithered through your fingers.  Your Minute Starts NowIt was no secret: the student body considered the experiment fast cash - sign up and strap in for a quick fifty before heading to the bars. Hangovers were often called Leglums. Leglum didn't mind.  Deep Clean"The unit is purely cognitive," she says. No shots, no pills. It's something brand new, this addiction therapy. Neon Kumar sits there listening to nothing.  Endangered speciesThey're offering a million pounds to send a hunting party back in time... another million if they return with a head.  Slug TimeAnd then Deenah was the slug. She was still Deenah, but her arms and legs were gone and the petri dishes looked like mountains.  Love in BalanceTheir anniversary was due and so was the rent. Despite this, Serani had spent the entire morning with Dickens instead of working.  Day BreakHe'd had enough of watching the days deteriorate. The time had come to investigate the thing that caused the breaking of the world.  Breaking the IceCould this be the remnants of an army that hacked off Larsen Ice Shelf and towed it to Argentina after they drank their mainland glaciers dry?  Act of FaithThe robot recited the call for prayer. “Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar…” When he completed the call, and turned to face Daud, he saw tears streaming from the old man’s eyes.  The Jesus ParticleThe end of the world is never exactly the same twice - try explaining that to a bunch of Armageddon tourists...  The Bio-Documentarian of the British LibraryThe British Library was a derelict structure located next to a disused railway terminal. Apparently people once decoded symbols placed on paper. How strange, thought Alphonse.  The Animal WithinIt's true what they say: never work with children or animals. Of course, they aren't usually referring to Trichoplax, the small, flattened half-animal, half-...thing?  Too Close for ComfortA clan of Neanderthals deliberately stalked and killed a man. Should they be treated as criminals or wild animals? 
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