The Quellor
C C Smith
(, March 18, 2020)
They live amongst us: the telepaths and precogs and the other psychics. They call themselves paths, and they refer to us non-paths as drips, because we are like a leaking faucet to them, irritating and always in need of fixing. Forget about your carnival “mind reader” and “fortune teller”; the real paths are hidden in plain sight, although you might, possibly, identify them by their sticks. The sticks look like ordinary objects, walking canes and rulers and such, but they are much more than this. Sticks allow paths to focus the energies of the five psychic forces. This is the story of Malodny Throckwell and how she turned her little “problem” into a superpower.