One of three

"One of Three" by Wesley Long is a science fiction story that kicks off with Ed Bronson, a smart electronics engineer, stumbling upon a way to talk to another world using some experimental glowing stuff he's working on; it's a tale filled with the idea of other realities running alongside our own, exploring new frontiers in science, and the scary idea of worlds clashing, as Bronson finds out that the woman he's talking to might be connected to a dangerous atomic fire that could wipe them all out; his experiments lead him to hear from a woman named Miss Carlson, who tells him about a really bad situation on her side, where an atomic bomb has caused the sun to never set; as Bronson tries to connect with her, he quickly realizes that invaders from another world might be trying to sneak into his, making everything feel urgent and tense; the story is packed with scientific questions and the impact of technology as the characters deal with the tricky stuff of talking to other worlds and the coming threat of an invasion, setting the scene for both personal struggles and big, life-or-death stakes.