It seems easy enough to deny medical care to fools judged too stupid to live. Until you're the one standing there with the power to save them. That's the dilemma Mike faces in The Darwin Act.
And we all probably know that one person who is just kind of a waste of space. But if you could, would you really call them in to help save limited resources? In The Hotline, James does just that. Unfortunately, things don't turn out the way he plans.
This is a short story combo. Approximate length 6,000 words.