Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes by Adam-Troy Castro - Lightspeed Magazine

Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes - Lightspeed Magazine

Negelein is at his workstation working on the Lafferty file when the bone spear arcs over the sea of cubicles and strikes just above his right ear, penetrating his skull with a wet crunch. Oblivion is not quite instantaneous; his neurons all fire at the moment his brain goes soggy with blood, giving him, in his last instant, an overwhelming taste of peppermint.

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Lightspeed Magazine, Mar. 2017 (Issue 82)