This story follows the actions of a couple who seem to have been together forever, who want to be able to create children of their own, and who will stop at nothing to do so. Involving stem cell research, cloning, mind control, human sacrifices, eventual success … and what comes after, this story isn’t afraid to touch on sensitive issues to get where it wants to go, or to take things even further from there.
This poem is about a particularly difficult and painful night of insomnia: tossing, turning, sweating, and hurting.
This story follows the actions of a couple who seem to have been together forever, who want to be able to create children of their own, and who will stop at nothing to do so. Involving stem cell research, cloning, mind control, human sacrifices, eventual success … and what comes after, this story isn’t afraid to touch on sensitive issues to get where it wants to go, or to take things even further from there.
I’ve decided to keep the poems in Worth 1k — Volume 2 in the order they were printed (for the remaining poems, as I did with W1kV1 for the last several months), and to group them not by length, to try to hit close to 2 minutes, but by meaning (as much as possible). This poem is my dealing with my grandfather’s (then) impending death. There are more poems on this subject in the book.
An essay about a possible interpretation of God’s perspective of time, relative to the “seven day week” of creation and our place in it. On the nth readthrough, I realized that I summarized much of the entire Bible in a few short pages, providing yet another iteration of the fractal story of creation. Which may make sense after you hear/read this essay.
This is the last two poems from this collection; one still clinging -briefly- to taking in and documenting the beauty of my journey, the other succumbing to the stress of being at the end of my budget and still 500 miles from home… and thus unable to buy myself a nice dinner for my birthday. Unable to find anything in between cheap and way-too-expensive in an unfamiliar city.
In a future where processing speeds allow computers to predict the future and advancements in genetic engineering allow people to design custom children, what happens when these technologies -and a couple who haven’t kept pace with post-singularity advances in technology- are combined to try to create a family? When one can not only select for simple things like gender, eye color, and hair color, but also for likely future outcomes like when and where your child will have their first kiss, or what career they’ll be drawn to, how far would you be willing to go to create the child of your dreams? In this short story, Harold and Anne are faced with questions like these in the wake of the devastating loss of their first child – created and born naturally, rather than technologically.