In the Heart of the Flesh

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance
Cover of the book In the Heart of the Flesh by Scott R. Parkin, ArcPoint Media
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Author: Scott R. Parkin ISBN: 1230000143088
Publisher: ArcPoint Media Publication: November 19, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Scott R. Parkin
ISBN: 1230000143088
Publisher: ArcPoint Media
Publication: November 19, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

In this short story of the near future, beauty isn't skin deep. It's not in the skin at all, but in the cells and the DNA--in the heart of the flesh where the eye cannot see and the mind can only imagine. At least that's how beauty came to be defined after Everett's Virus made appearance irrelevant.

Jasmine was considered ugly for her whole life, and was treated as a thing by those who might have been her friends. Until Everett's Virus rendered all but a scant few thousand women sterile. But now…now she is beautiful simply by dint of her fertility--a gift that makes no more sense to her than did her former ugliness.

So she dances at Club Xtreme and takes the money of those who formerly mocked her, showing her ugly flesh to those who cannot have it as payback for her years of pain and isolation. Until one night when she begins to rethink her well-earned anger and consider a new possibility. (about 24 pages)

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In this short story of the near future, beauty isn't skin deep. It's not in the skin at all, but in the cells and the DNA--in the heart of the flesh where the eye cannot see and the mind can only imagine. At least that's how beauty came to be defined after Everett's Virus made appearance irrelevant.

Jasmine was considered ugly for her whole life, and was treated as a thing by those who might have been her friends. Until Everett's Virus rendered all but a scant few thousand women sterile. But now…now she is beautiful simply by dint of her fertility--a gift that makes no more sense to her than did her former ugliness.

So she dances at Club Xtreme and takes the money of those who formerly mocked her, showing her ugly flesh to those who cannot have it as payback for her years of pain and isolation. Until one night when she begins to rethink her well-earned anger and consider a new possibility. (about 24 pages)

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