Midwife

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… Bantry’s time scanner, that miraculous gadget for viewing the past and whatever had happened there—that was what the cops needed in cases like this…

… The scanner—the greatest invention in human history….

… And with the greatest potential for good or evil….

… Pretty soon we’ll know which way it’s going to go…

… Good…?

… Or evil…?

These were the immediate, if rather disjointed and melodramatic, thoughts of Samuel Garraty Ferron on this August morning of 2074, as he blinked with outrage and disbelief at the page of the Washington Clarion that had just been printed by the office commcent. In repulsive color and sickening detail, it showed the bodies of a family of four visiting Norwegians who had literally been cut in half on the steps of Washington’s John Paul Jones Memorial. The police speculated that the weapon was an illegally modified industrial laser wielded from a passing van. A random, totally gratuitous act of horror.

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