MOME

Alistair McCary wants to dive deeper into his anomaly, even after it obliterates his entire physics lab. His colleague, Davan Yazdani, is equally thrilled by the potential of her anomaly, but her excitement significantly dampens when her nagging roommate is rendered catatonic by it.

Elsewhere, a physicist is murdered, and solitary Service Officer Kaleb Martinex is confused by the lack of any physical evidence in the crime. Martinex's investigation leads to a potential cover-up by one of the leading physics research labs, but the lab's CEO bars Martinex from further enquiries when he flouts their security protocols. To make matters worse, Kaleb is assigned a partner who dictates his every move.

After crunching the preliminary data, Alistair agrees to help extract a boy from the Mingle, a piece of shareware that had been made public while still in beta phase. The boy's release draws the attention of two government agents, but from their strange questioning the boy's mother suspects they aren't who they appear to be.

As Alistair and Davan get closer to the groundbreaking truth, the murders increase. Martinex's partner sees that all the evidence points to Alistair as their prime suspect, while Martinex begins to untangle an even more complex cover-up engineered by an international corporation, the Mingle, and a sinister operating system called MOME.

Randall Barnes is a native Californian who has traveled the world as an English language teacher and, after earning a PhD in Film Sound, has worked on many films as a sound designer. He currently shares his rural mountain home with a tuxedo cat named Teagan and spends much of his time enjoying fiction and films that explore the creative fringes of science fiction, horror and comedy.