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  • FUTURES

Dreams of the East Elevens

Medical assistance.
By
  1. Matt Thompson

    1. Matt Thompson is an experimental musician and writer of strange fictions. His work has been published at Interzone, Asimov’s, Nature Futures and many more worthy venues. You can find him online at http://matt-thompson.com.

Two model human heads face each other. Each has a large computer chip with a medical cross on it, although one chip is damaged.

Illustration: Jacey

The Entry-Ant whirred and beckoned the impatient queue forward. Jeri frosted her eye-clips to black for the scan-scorch procedure.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03000-5

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