Tomorrow's Vig

Iteration

Oil painting of a male chest with an engorged heart pushing through the chest.

Yldra, raging with self-contempt, grunted and tossed a yellow tablet into his mouth. The tanks, all six, bore some flaw, some failure demonstrating yet another ineptitude on his part. A genetic repurposing worm in tank one had a coding error. Instead of laying fresh skin, it ate a carved path from the specimen’s lower eye […]