Hard Truths and Harder Questions by Dave Wainio John Linna rolled his shoulders to loosen their tension as he stared at his hand and concentrated on the cards. He glanced towards Gracie over the top of the plastic rectangles he held fanned out. She was looked at the video feed from Circinus rather than her own cards as if she hadn’t a care in the world. But he knew it was all an act. A carefully crafted ‘poker face’. His attention wandered to the small wall mounted screen for a moment when the news-reader announced a special bulletin. But he immediately lost interest when the special report turned out to be the same canned speech by President H.R. “Little Bob” McIntyre they had heard six times already during the inbound trip. Clayborne Remembered city only broadcasted one channel and John