 Who is the nucleus?
I am a Nucleus By STEPHEN BARR Illustrated by GAUGHAN [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction February 1957. At the moment of the explosion—if so feeble a thing can be called one—I felt something sting my face and, on touching it, found blood on my hand. Psychiatry tells us that some people are accident-prone; I, on the other hand, seemed recently to be coincidence-prone, fluke-happy, and except for the alarm clock, I'd had no control over what had been going on. There were four men confronting him, evidently torn between the desire to make an angry exit and the impulse to stay and beat him up.
 Alec
 Alec  Mrs. Graham  A character never mentioned by name  McGill