THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN

Raymund Eich

CV-2 Books ● Houston

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people, living or dead, or any known events is purely coincidental.

THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN

© 1998 Raymund Eich

Originally published in Odyssey #4, 1998.

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But who may abide the day of his coming?  and who shall stand when he appeareth?

                                                            —Malachi 3:2a

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I’ve been waiting my whole life for this day, boss, Joel said.  This is the day religion dies.

Professor Evelyn Troelsch dragged a chair over the worn tile and sat near him. Just the superstitious part of it.

His brown eyes glinted.  As if there’s anything more to it, he said, and turned to oppenheimer, one of the Physics Department’s workstations.  He always grew feisty when he had high expectations, and Evelyn knew he pushed her buttons to provoke her to argue.  Today was too solemn, and she refused the bait.

Joel typed, and the starting window for ClioView, the chronoscope refinement program, popped up on the monitor.  "First I’m going to run a time lapse of the tomb. Every