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    How Many Angels?
    How Many Angels?
    How Many Angels?
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    How Many Angels?

    By Nicholas Stillman

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    First published in The Colored Lens, “How Many Angels?” brings man under the microscope as scientists make their first communication with God. A nascent technology provides proof of a divine dimension, but with eerie costs. Millet, a maltreated scientist, must sacrifice thousands of rats to witness tiny traces of the creator. To receive God’s full message, Millet and his pensive coworker, Chase, remain confined in a tiny shell of a control station for eight years.

    Treated like a rodent himself, Millet murders his bully of a superior, Conrad. The resulting conundrum makes the killing look either insane or brilliant. Would God want Conrad protected as a person or punished for tormenting other sacred lives? The ultimate colloquy unfolds with the only two men to know that God awaits them all. Considered an angel already for his historical commune, Millet may murder again, this time with chilling and divine reasoning.

    Get “How Many Angels?” now for a murder with the ultimate witness.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStillman Sci-Fi
    Release dateFeb 15, 2018
    ISBN9781386331698
    How Many Angels?
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    Nicholas Stillman

    Nicholas Stillman writes dark but entertaining science fiction. His weekly short stories and collections aim for variety and novelty with fun and thought-provoking twists. They often branch into dystopia, crime, horror, medical fiction, black comedy, romance, adventure, adult, and the completely new. Some of Stillman’s themes include civilizational collapse, addictions of the future, medicine in space, dark psychology, and the terrifying fate of our healthcare. Stillman offers monthly free short stories at StillmanSciFi.com. Get yourself free, easily accessible short stories for life--the perfect way for any science fiction fan to spend time on commutes or at home.

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      How Many Angels? - Nicholas Stillman

      How Many Angels?

      By Nicholas Stillman

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      © 2018 Nicholas Stillman

      Originally published in The Colored Lens

      Get free short stories monthly at stillmanscifi.com

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      How Many Angels?

      Two of the three experimenters learned that God exists and that He values human life. They made this greatest of scientific discoveries almost an hour ago. Conrad remained outside the capsule in the atmospheric suit, delivering last month’s results. Technically the most isolated man alive, he still didn’t know. Chase sat stunned and staring on the flattened padding of his swivel chair where he had practically lived for eight years. Millet, however, spent most of the hour with the lab rats.

      I still can’t believe it, Chase said to the tiny screens nearly pressed to face. I mean, I believe it, but...you know what I mean. The shock won’t leave. God exists. And He values human life.

      Millet stretched in his chair and tried not to bump into anything important—which meant everything. He felt no awe, only a steady joint stiffness from eight years of this capsular confinement. He felt the months of training in the test tank stacked on his bones too, that cramped, extra time required for a psychological evaluation. The discovery of God hadn’t done much for him to relieve the cravings for space and freedom.

      He also still had work to do, preferably with some grace now that you-know-who watched for sure. He exhaled extra hard at the curved wall of the capsule, the experiment station which immured him and his two colleagues. His long sigh

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