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When a programmer creates a new type of empathy-based cryptocurrency that disrupts the workings of a charity run by her old roomate, the two are drawn into conflict over rationality, morality and justice.
A man tricks a salesman into chasing buried treasure in order to purchase a new machine he wants.
A humble cambist's life is upended when a local noble decides to use him for party tricks.
An elderly widower falls prey to a targeted banking scam by a pair of English con artists.
When a former air force pilot’s friend goes missing for 32 days, he recalls a dangerous but tempting deal he was offered months ago and assumes the worst for his more gullible and perhaps unlucky friend.
After a husband and wife team up to use quantum physics to cheat a casino out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, they make a shady deal with the casino's owner to avoid jail time.
A man working multiple jobs to make ends meet comes into a hefty inheritance by way of stocks, but refuses to touch the money in order to keep up a turbulent relationship with his artistic passions.
The protagonist is instructed to receive money from a hustler in order to help a tinkerer get rid of the Tell in people's bodies. However, the authorities find them first and now she must escape in order to complete the mission.
An unemployed man tricks a woman out of a dollar bill at a bar, but afterwards he feels guilty and tries to make amends.
Days after announcing an invention that will change the fabric of his futuristic world, an inventor goes missing and two detectives must find out where he is and what his supposedly groundbreaking invention was.
