Judy Van Enige
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I am a free-lance medical editor, looking to expand into the creative writing arena.
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The Invitation
THE INVITATION Social confusion, embarrassment, awkwardness and “fish-out-of-waterness” all perfectly describe an experience I had years ago when I was in an interval between colleges and back with my parents, who were stationed overseas at the time.
By Judy Van Enige5 years ago in Humans
REGENESIS
TITLE: REGENESIS SUBTITLE: The Quest for Sameness The doctor observed the female through the one-way mirror as he scrubbed, disinfected and gloved. It had been many years since he’d seen a “live one,” a subject with a viable reproductive system. In the early years of the Genesis program, after the cessation of the gender wars, they had used surrogate captives for invitro fertilization with sperm from the bank. At birth, male babies were sent to the nursery and the female progeny were either culled or used first for genetic experimentation or ovarian tissue cryopreservation and then disposed of. This was a policy that the doctor had objected to on the grounds that a fully functional ex-vitro reproduction program was still years in the future. His colleagues had shortsightedly dismissed his objection, probably out of hubris, hatred, disgust, budgetary concerns over maintenance and upkeep costs, or some combination of factors. Whatever the case, the result was that the surrogates were aging out, the sperm banks were fairly well depleted, and the male progeny were afflicted by lower and lower sperm counts. Although there was progress being made in the ex-vitro program, the ultimate goal of asexual reproduction was still, by his estimate, years down the road.
By Judy Van Enige5 years ago in Fiction
