splashed near him but didn’t touch him
“Holy shit!”
Running back to his office, Norman went inside and slammed the door shut. This was some serious shit! What the hell was going on here? Was it the end of the world?
Rita was sitting in his chair, filing her nails, leaning back. “What’s going on out there, Normie?”
“I uh, need to check on something, in the warehouse. I’ll be right back.”
With his hands shaking, he grabbed a color coded key off his desk and ran out of his office toward the warehouse. He nearly knocked over one of the other girls as he ran past.
He yelled “Get the hell out of the way!”
Fuck all these people , he thought. I need to get somewhere safe!
If All Goes Well
In a lab in the lower levels of the Clinical Pathology Laboratories in Orlando, Scientist Edmond Jesseph said to himself, this is unbelievable.
Making sure that his large belly wouldn’t bump the microscope, he took in a deep breath and held it as he leaned forward to view the slide one more time. He had seen this specimen hundreds of times in the last few days, and with each subsequent viewing, it intrigued him even further.
He said to himself, “How can this be ? How did this avoid being seen ?”
The specimen, routinely marked and cataloged, had been brought into the lab for standard testing several days before. There had been no additional remarks about the capsule enclosed slide, nothing was noted as being out of the norm. No special studies were needed.
As Jesseph routinely studied the slide, as he had done to thousands of other slides during his career, he noticed, as usual, one of the cell walls appeared to have a slight blemish on it. He knew all cells had a slight discoloration on at least one edge of the outer cell wall. As a matter of fact, all living cells had the discoloration; from animals to plants to humans.
He didn’t know why at the time, but Jesseph took it upon himself to look at the blemish a little harder. Could it have been fate? A whim?
As he studied it, he became captivated by a strange abnormality lying between the outer layers of the cell. He asked his colleague Doctor Julie Snow to verify his findings. She collaborated. The oddity was something neither of them could recall ever deeply studying in all of their years of carcinogenesis. They had both simply thought it was part of the normal transformation of the cell.
“We have discovered something here quite unique, doctor,” Julie said as she stood behind him, a clipboard in her arms with pages and pages of scribbled notes clipped to it.
“Indeed we have.”
He took in another deep breath. He had been contemplating a hypothesis, something unheard of in this community. He turned to face Ms. Snow. She was shorter than he; an attractive woman, 39 years old, single, black hair, black wire frame glasses, a slight quirk on the side of her mouth when she smiled.
“What we have here is an unknown.” Jesseph said, his eyes serious. “This discovery could change everything.”
“Yes it could,” she said straight-faced.
He exhaled, an overweight man of 57. His lab coat was tight around his stomach. He had gray hair and a long gray goatee. “Who should we tell?”
“Maybe we should delay, perform a few more tests. Perhaps wait a few days – maybe wait until after the holiday weekend. Clear our minds a little. Let’s not tell anyone of this yet, doctor.”
“It definitely does need more study,” he agreed, crossing his arms. “I know we’ve spent a great deal on this already and the rest of our work has fallen behind; but Julie, we need to be 100% sure of this.”
He shook his head in disbelief as he leaned down to the microscope once more. He couldn’t believe he was the first to discover this underlying anomaly, this tissue within the cell wall. How it could have been overlooked for years had him simply flabbergasted.
Why would science overlook it? Why would they
“Holy shit!”
Running back to his office, Norman went inside and slammed the door shut. This was some serious shit! What the hell was going on here? Was it the end of the world?
Rita was sitting in his chair, filing her nails, leaning back. “What’s going on out there, Normie?”
“I uh, need to check on something, in the warehouse. I’ll be right back.”
With his hands shaking, he grabbed a color coded key off his desk and ran out of his office toward the warehouse. He nearly knocked over one of the other girls as he ran past.
He yelled “Get the hell out of the way!”
Fuck all these people , he thought. I need to get somewhere safe!
If All Goes Well
In a lab in the lower levels of the Clinical Pathology Laboratories in Orlando, Scientist Edmond Jesseph said to himself, this is unbelievable.
Making sure that his large belly wouldn’t bump the microscope, he took in a deep breath and held it as he leaned forward to view the slide one more time. He had seen this specimen hundreds of times in the last few days, and with each subsequent viewing, it intrigued him even further.
He said to himself, “How can this be ? How did this avoid being seen ?”
The specimen, routinely marked and cataloged, had been brought into the lab for standard testing several days before. There had been no additional remarks about the capsule enclosed slide, nothing was noted as being out of the norm. No special studies were needed.
As Jesseph routinely studied the slide, as he had done to thousands of other slides during his career, he noticed, as usual, one of the cell walls appeared to have a slight blemish on it. He knew all cells had a slight discoloration on at least one edge of the outer cell wall. As a matter of fact, all living cells had the discoloration; from animals to plants to humans.
He didn’t know why at the time, but Jesseph took it upon himself to look at the blemish a little harder. Could it have been fate? A whim?
As he studied it, he became captivated by a strange abnormality lying between the outer layers of the cell. He asked his colleague Doctor Julie Snow to verify his findings. She collaborated. The oddity was something neither of them could recall ever deeply studying in all of their years of carcinogenesis. They had both simply thought it was part of the normal transformation of the cell.
“We have discovered something here quite unique, doctor,” Julie said as she stood behind him, a clipboard in her arms with pages and pages of scribbled notes clipped to it.
“Indeed we have.”
He took in another deep breath. He had been contemplating a hypothesis, something unheard of in this community. He turned to face Ms. Snow. She was shorter than he; an attractive woman, 39 years old, single, black hair, black wire frame glasses, a slight quirk on the side of her mouth when she smiled.
“What we have here is an unknown.” Jesseph said, his eyes serious. “This discovery could change everything.”
“Yes it could,” she said straight-faced.
He exhaled, an overweight man of 57. His lab coat was tight around his stomach. He had gray hair and a long gray goatee. “Who should we tell?”
“Maybe we should delay, perform a few more tests. Perhaps wait a few days – maybe wait until after the holiday weekend. Clear our minds a little. Let’s not tell anyone of this yet, doctor.”
“It definitely does need more study,” he agreed, crossing his arms. “I know we’ve spent a great deal on this already and the rest of our work has fallen behind; but Julie, we need to be 100% sure of this.”
He shook his head in disbelief as he leaned down to the microscope once more. He couldn’t believe he was the first to discover this underlying anomaly, this tissue within the cell wall. How it could have been overlooked for years had him simply flabbergasted.
Why would science overlook it? Why would they
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