Because We Can

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11 March 2012

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Drabble Challenge #78 [Alternate]

Prompt: picture (special)

When he presented his creation, the assembled scientists gasped and stared in horror. He, alone, seemed excited by his accomplishment.

They flooded him with questions, most of them the same. He told them what he'd done, and how, but never quite managed to answer the one thing that everyone wanted to know: "Why?" He couldn't offer a single practical application or suggest any way that his work could advance science in any meaningful way.

"But I have combined plant and animal DNA!" he exclaimed, "And it's alive!"

Almost on cue, the pitiful creature took a few painful steps and collapsed.

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