Universityofchicago Stories

Young Lena Bentheim is forced to flee Nazi Germany for Chicago in 1935, leaving her family and boyfriend behind. After learning English, she eventually finds a new life as a secretary in the Physics Department of the University of Chicago. She meets and marries another German refugee scientist and has a child. Then tragedy strikes, and Lena is forced to spy on the nuclear fission experiments at the U of Chicago. A novella set in the early years of the Manhattan Project, The Incidental Spy is another fascinating historical thriller by Libby Fischer Hellmann, also the author of the highly acclaimed stand-alone thrillers Set the Night on Fire, A Bitter Veil, and Havana Lost.

Alyssa is trapped. Trapped in he minds of others. All of their pain, all of their suffering, all of their misery. She can't escape, she can't live like this, and she can't do anything about it. She's stuck, with no way out, and no way forward or backward. Alyssa lives in Chicago, in an apartment near the University of Chicago. To the world, she's just a normal collage student. But in her world, she's the telepathic psychic princess who can do whatever she wants. She's not the only one, but she is the only one who has telepathy. The combination of super strength, super speed, and telepathy that let's her predict what people are gonna' do, makes her the overall expert at combat. Combat that she doesn't want to take part in. But she has to, because there's no way out. The problem is, her kind has a very controlling government, meaning that since she's the princess, and the only one with her abilities, she has to do as ordered. She's not happy, and not safe. With no way out.

This is me picturing my future collage life. My first dream school has always been Stanford, but then it changed to the University of Chicago. I got rejected from UChicago, and now I come here when I need to get my anxiety out.