T. H. Mercer writes speculative fiction about things getting hard and the people who rise to meet them. Relay - a near-future thriller about a courier who finds people by the flinch in their voice - is serializing here one chapter a week. His short fiction has appeared in Space & Time and anthologies from Raconteur Press and Dragon Soul Press; his debut collection is Moral Arithmetic. Free story at thmercer.com/free.
- THM