KRYPTONITE
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, a line every 2 nm. Shown on its DNA (dark), floppy loops left off. A thale cress plant is about twenty-five million times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- KRYPTONITE. KYP to friends, SUVH4 on paper.
- Height
- 9.2 nm, standing on its DNA.
- Weight
- 116 zeptograms, before it picks up any DNA.
- Build
- A reader for marked DNA, bolted to a writer for histones.
- Habits
- Flips a methylated C clean out of the DNA, then plugs the hole with two leucines.
- Associates
- CMT3. Each writes the mark the other reads. Round and round.
- Victim
- SUPERMAN, a flower gene. Its mutant flowers grow extra stamens.
- Weakness
- Methylated CG. It grips it weakly, and would not crystallize with one.
- Last seen
- In a crystal in an X-ray beam in New York, flipping a C out of DNA.
silenced copies of SUPERMAN in the first lineup: “the clark kent alleles.”
You’ve never seen one. That’s the disguise.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for KRYPTONITE, No. 110 of the exotic forty. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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