Desperate Measures

An act of desperation.Veronica Logan's teleportation project is on the verge of losing its funding, and she fears her husband has strayed from her. Without caring about the results or if she'd even survive, she enters the departure pod as the first human test subject and disappears.Something happens while her signal is transmitting, and only a small fraction of her mass reappears at the other side. Alive but incomplete, she asks her team to hide the accident from her husband while they try retrieving her missing matter still stored in the computer's memory. However, Veronica's colleagues have other motives which may make her condition permanent and unleash a darker, bigger threat.To measure up to the woman she once was, Veronica must reassess her career and reconcile with her husband. Only she can clear her conscience, but she might be her own worst enemy. Syrus Durham first started writing short stories and keeping track of them in high school, churning out a short story every few weeks. They were only a few pages long and handwritten in pencil on unlined notepads, but everyone starts somewhere! Even back then, he wrote about weird or fantastic events happening to normal people. Over time, he wrote longer and longer stories until he was finally able to sustain a novel-length plot.He enjoys reading science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary fiction-as long as the plot, themes, and characters are compelling and/or quirky fun.