Familial Universe
Dr. Elia Renner’s midnight oil burned in two forms: in the low hum of the Genevantis Chrono-Gene Lab and in the spiraling totem on her drafting table. Stacked clay heads—goat, bird, mechanized skull—jutted skyward, each painted in mocking neon that flickered under her single desk lamp. Outside, sheep grazed in the valley; inside, her relatives […]
