Quantum Lust
Balancing her box of belongings on her knee, Professor Rylee Cantrell unlocked the door to the office lab of the infamous "Gone Prof" — a thoughtless moniker the students used to refer to Professor Ethan Norwood, who had gone missing nearly six months ago. The police had investigated, briefly, but with no wife or relatives asking after him and no evidence of foul play, they dropped the case without a search. People walk away from their lives all the time, they said. Not their concern. Norwood gave no professional notice or any sign of plans to leave. He had taken the train in to the university as usual six months ago, and then by the end of the day he was just ... gone. No word to anyone. Not even the woman he had made love to for the first time just the day before. It had been a milestone in their relationship, and though it happened in a rather spur-of-the-moment time and place, it had felt right after two months of getting to know each other and growing closer. First as ...