“Bait” (part 1 of a series) by P. Orin Zack [09/05/2013] Alphon Quince was startled out of his reverie by the grating tones of his emergency alert. The 20-year-old physical systems troubleshooter absently waved aside the cross-section of a damaged HyperLoop tube he’d been studying and threw the open-hand gesture for the alert’s newsfeed to … More Short Story: “Bait”