Flickering Flame (short story)

In Chris's time as an Adjudicator, he mostly ate foodimals, algae and fungus that lived beneath the Overcities.
Chris meets Iris in the Salt Lamb.
The Hoothi is a fungus that Iris' people had to deal with once.
Dickens wrote about spontaneous human combustion in one of his novels.
Iris has a yo-yo, a bag of mints, a 28th century plasma pistol and an Orthogonal Dimensional Retensioner in her bag.
There is a jacuzzi and a mini-bar with Venusian Tequillas in the upper level of the Celestial Omnibus.
Chris uses Google Maps.
Neuralgia means having pain in one's nerves.
Frederick's body is found in a Lexus.
Iris is friends with a local Community Policewoman.
Frederick left behing a wife and three children.
Frederick worked at the Plymouth Oceanographic Research Institute
Elaine Padgett is the Human Resources Manager at the Institute.
The Institute conduct DNA-lever research on marine animals.
It is believed that sharks never died of old age.
One of the animals in the Institute is a frilled shark. They are usually found a kilometer and a half beneath the surface.
Dr Garness' speciality was communities viling in the abyssopelagic zone of the ocean.
Padgett uses atmospheres as a unit of measurement.
Chris and Iris rent a small SUV.
Hyperbole is greek for exaggeration.
The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and the Nobel Prize winner Wolfgang Pauli called synchronicity the force in the universe what looked like coincidence.

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Chris was once a companion of the Evil Renegade. (PROSE: Original Sin, et al.)
Chris had a mission recently in Depford County. (PROSE: Fountain of Youth)