Five-Minute fiction - 23::56-00:1

surgical, chemical, and biological practices in order to look younger, be stronger, or what have you. Thrope had made it a point to limit the enhancement the team had underwent. Too often the enhancements met with some critical failure and the subject required immediate medical attention, and usually more than could be provided by the teams field medics. But Thrope suspected that whatever happened to the President it would not take long to fix.

May I sit down? the man asked gesturing toward the only other seat in the small office.

Of course, please. Can I offer you something to drink? Water, tea, alcohol? The offer of alcohol was a strange one, the current restrictions on refined wheat products, usually meant that whatever alcohol was available was synthetic. The real stuff was either really old, or had been made illegally.

No, thank you. I do not have much time with which I can spend with you. I, however, did want to make this meeting, personally, as I have been told of your critical