Prompt: She had found something
that would mean she'd never be poor again - but there was a catch
She lifted her eye from the microscope. It
was confirmed again; the cancer cells were shrunken and dying. The leads
followed from the horseshoe crabs, to the most recent “donor” had paid off.
Images paraded through her mind: accepting
a Nobel Prize before a crowd, her face on journals, magazines, a mansion with a
pool, she and her nephew afloat and laughing.
Then the image of Josie. Not so much
flat-chested as sunken, withered, small. It had not been long ago.
But where would the world go with this,
she thought, glancing at the fetus opened up on the table.
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That is a very interesting conundrum. It was expressed well.
ReplyDeleteThat is quite the catch. And such a dilemma. Wow!
ReplyDeleteVery heartbreaking dilemma. One I wouldn't want to find myself in.
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