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  • FUTURES

Ded-Mek

A vision of the past.
By
  1. Matt Thompson

    1. Matt Thompson is a London-based musician and writer. His work appears or is forthcoming at Aliterate, Black Static and others. He can be found online at matt-thompson.com and on Twitter at @24wordLoop.

Ded-Mek slots the iridium strip into the boy’s chest cavity and stands back to admire her handiwork. Her construction blinks at her, frowning. His skin grafts are almost perfect. Not too exact, of course. She always leaves imperfections, blemishes. Other than that you might be fooled; but Ded-Mek appreciates the glitches. It’s as if Geon, her son, her ruin, is still growing up, still unfolding his petals of childhood to become the man he never will be.

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Nature 559, 146 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05590-3

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