Vitamin C
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. A dime is about twenty million times wider.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Ascorbic acid, on the label.
- Height
- 0.81 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.29 zeptograms
- Build
- One five-sided ring with a short tail.
- Taste
- Sour. It’s an acid.
- Habits
- Keeps cut fruit from going brown.
- Marks
- Most animals make their own. People, monkeys and guinea pigs can’t.
- Associates
- Red bell peppers, with over twice as much as oranges, gram for gram.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked OJ in the fridge at HQ.
of them in an 8 oz glass of carton orange juice, on average.
Fresh-squeezed has more. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Vitamin C, No. 65. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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