Stories tagged “experimentation”
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Run
He had taken the last of it. The last experiment, the last bit of neglect. He had taken the last of the abuse, both verbal and physical. He turned his weary, exhausted head toward the ceiling. But there wasn’t one. He turned to look at the walls,...
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Human
A startling, black lack of sound hung in the air while Jaquie stared at her brother with a completely blank stare. She couldn’t understand how Isaiah could tell her he was human when she had witnessed his birth from her Burnian mother, led into t...
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The Testing Train
The train stood deathly still, the land mine had completed its task. The first carriage lay in a smoldering wreck at the side of the tracks and the next two both lay on their side on the grass verge next to the track. Flames grasped towards the sky and...
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Confrontation
I am suspended above a vat of some translucent blue fluid. Electrodes are attached to my skin and my bald head. I am naked, strapped down to a steel scaffolding. The door opens, sliding upwards. A man walks in. I instantly recoil as far as my containme...
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Pain
Pain shoots through my body with disconcerting intensity and distressing rapidity. I am submerged in a perfluorocarbon fluid (most likely ultra-purified perfluorodecalin; it’s what everybody uses in training), enabling me to breathe but not to sc...