He did it again. The people gathered knew he could. They called it a miracle at first, until the scientists found another name for it: the Haptogenetic Gift. His touch could read the electrical language of diseased cells, quieten inflammation, shrink tumours, repair damaged DNA, and reverse ageing. But once the world discovered what his hands could do, healing stopped being a gift and became something everyone wanted to own.
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Eyes are the Window to the Soul
She thought she was lying in bed, avoiding the phone and staring out of the window. But the beeping sound was not an alarm. The window was not a window. And the life she had been hiding inside was beginning to fade.
Beneath the Surface
By the twenty-fifth century, people had stopped debating whether the Earth was dying. It had already gone too far for that. There had been years of warnings, conferences, climate deals, and promises, but things kept getting worse. Sea levels rose, heat became harder to predict, crops failed in too many…