Discovery
Dec 17th, 2015 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
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The light was dim and in the blue to purple spectrum, but he could barely keep his hands from shaking. There between trembling fingers, was the first synthetic bioluminescent bulb.
He thought he heard a creak in the darkness. The deeper shadows of conspiracy theories crossed his field of vision like eye-floaters: fears that some capitalist cadre would send black ops to assassinate him and ‘disappear’ his research. Beads of sweat chilled along his spine.
Then he noticed a reddish glow from one of the beakers on the bench: one containing a slightly different formula. The scientist chased the child.
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