Fructose
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, ruled every 0.05 nm. About 130,000 end to end would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Fruit sugar. Also levulose, for the way it bends light to the left.
- Height
- 0.62 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.30 zeptograms
- Build
- A six-sided ring, five carbons and an oxygen, with one arm out.
- Taste
- Sweeter than table sugar, by 20 to 80 percent.
- Habits
- Changes shape in water: five forms at once. Looks like this about two-thirds of the time.
- Associates
- Glucose, in nearly equal parts. When honey sets, that’s the glucose.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked HONEY in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a tablespoon of honey, on average.
Honeys vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Fructose, No. 69. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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