Since the June issue of KidVisions is nowhere to be found, please to enjoy the nominated story. :)
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ELI #7
Eli Shevah tested the air with her sensitive nose, and pressed her bioengineered hand against the rubble in front of her. Super light, and super strong, she would not shift the earthquake rubble on her own. She’d been engineered from Greyhounds and bird genetics, all grafted onto a Homo sapiens base. Saiden Dog they called her kind, and the cast of her face showed the Greyhound while her movements showed the manipulated hawk genetics. This very work was everything she’d been designed for. Disaster recovery, earthquakes in particular.
But Nature might have other plans. Science might have made her, but Eli never underestimated the power of Nature.
( to continue reading... )
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ELI #7
Eli Shevah tested the air with her sensitive nose, and pressed her bioengineered hand against the rubble in front of her. Super light, and super strong, she would not shift the earthquake rubble on her own. She’d been engineered from Greyhounds and bird genetics, all grafted onto a Homo sapiens base. Saiden Dog they called her kind, and the cast of her face showed the Greyhound while her movements showed the manipulated hawk genetics. This very work was everything she’d been designed for. Disaster recovery, earthquakes in particular.
But Nature might have other plans. Science might have made her, but Eli never underestimated the power of Nature.
( to continue reading... )