scratch
for gen_drabble challenge 6: scratch
Just how does the ATA gene sequence work, anyway?
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He tries to ignore it at first-does ignore it at first: too many disasters, no time to sit down and figure out if the niggle at the back of his brain actually exists, or if he’s simply gone nuts. (Or both; he spends his nights talking to blank walls, half-expecting them to talk back, and reciting antique love poetry to an antique city.)
But then Helia and her crew try to claim Atlantis as theirs, and John-
John smiles like a shark and flexes mental fingers and finally does something about that itch he’s pretended for so long isn’t there.
Just how does the ATA gene sequence work, anyway?
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He tries to ignore it at first-does ignore it at first: too many disasters, no time to sit down and figure out if the niggle at the back of his brain actually exists, or if he’s simply gone nuts. (Or both; he spends his nights talking to blank walls, half-expecting them to talk back, and reciting antique love poetry to an antique city.)
But then Helia and her crew try to claim Atlantis as theirs, and John-
John smiles like a shark and flexes mental fingers and finally does something about that itch he’s pretended for so long isn’t there.