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Oliver Clywick thinks he is having a heart attack. But that should not be possible because in the year 2057, the most common medical conditions have been eradicated by genetic engineering.
Oliver has won the Genlotto. Not a lottery with a boatload of cash, but rather a total body makeover. And not just an external make-over, but a total re-sequencing of your genetic material. With the bonus to be envied by all who have to make do with just what nature gave them.
Of course, this type of treatment would be horrifically expensive. Which is why the lottery exists. To give everybody a fighting chance.
But genetic re-sequencing is unpredictable and very much a question of chance, like, uh, playing the lotto?
In the short science fiction story CLYWICK'S REMEMBERING a handyman gets a whole lot more than what he bargained for. But sometimes you don't want what you won, and you would rather settle for what you had.
CLYWICK'S REMEMBERING was first published in 2012 and, in 2021, was included in the short story collection ABRUPTLY: a short story collection in four sets.
I.M. Gerhi is the pen name Gerhi Janse van Vuuren used to publish his fiction. As a former high school teacher, Gerhi is also a fine art painter. I.M. Gerhi lives in Randburg, Gauteng, in sunny South Africa, with his wife, two sons, and two cats.
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