Daily Short Stories from The Penned Sleuth

"How is the subject?" Dr Roberts asked. "All is well, sir. Project Q is doing just fine." "Good and how was Z's transition?" The scientist looked nervously up from his tablet at the doctor. Dr Roberts raised an eyebrow. The subject wasn't dead, but there was some sort of complication. That's what Dr Roberts read from the man’s face. Something inside him told him that another one of Z's complications had come up and despite the frequency of them, he still was afraid of being surprised.