The Mandylion – First Chapter

“Valentina. I’m making myself an espresso. Do you want a cappuccino?” My eyes rose from the laptop. Earning my fee as a cybercrime consultant for the FBI, I was browsing the Dark Web, trying to sniff out the jamokes who’d turned identity theft and defrauding the government’s unemployment insurance into a multi-billion-dollar black industry. I…

Hire Math

Was I in heaven? Standing on the bridge above Triphammer Falls, a rare sunny day in Ithaca lifted my spirits as a wafting breeze carried the scent of the surrounding forest, and my ears sunk into the soothing roll of white water churning beneath me. The day would’ve been worthy of bottling had my mind…