Originally, the story was going to end with something like this (don't worry, it's not a spoiler): A journalist was going to ask one of the street vendors how he felt about profiting off a phenomenon that had cost lives, and whether he had anything to say to the victims' families. The street vendor, demonstrating a breathtaking quantity of chutzpah, would answer: "That question is in very poor taste. Shame on you, using their deaths to try to score fake morality points like that!" But the story veered away from there and wound up somewhere else, which is probably for the best.
I have no idea how likely it would really be for NCAR to investigate a phenomenon like that described here. It's not exactly atmospheric research, not in the usual sense. But the science education museum at the facility on Table Mesa Drive is real, and you should visit it next time you're in town.
Cover art incorporates public domain photography via Wikimedia Commons of a construction site in Toronto. Too bad the author didn't think to take a photo of the Loveland construction project that inspired her last month over lunch at Wonderful Dragon.
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Falling Toward the Light
ContoThere is no business as usual when the early stages of new building construction unearths a violation of physics and causality. (Now the Fictionette Freebie for July 2017! Full text inside!)
