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Chapter One - The Child: Her Story 2004
March
I'm 24 now and seems more and more unlikely each day that my husband and I will ever get pregnant
by any conventional means. Yet there is a new hope for us. Just yesterday a new law was passed
which finally allows human cloning to take place. I only hope that i may be among the first to
gain access to this new technology.
May
I'm so excited. I got a letter today from Dr. C, I've been accepted to have my cells cloned.
If all goes well I could be carrying a child by the end of the month.
June
Finally after nearly two months of treatment I have been informed that an embryo implantation has
been successful. I'm pregnant.
Sept
My Husband is becoming more and more distant from me. I can't understand. He wanted a baby as
much as i did. I wonder if he feels any love toward my unborn child, after all it is no relation
of his, it is completely my child, and my child alone.
April
Today at 9:22 am I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, I am going to call her Emma after my
mother. She is so beautiful. My Husband says she looks just like the baby photos he has seen of
me. That is not surprising I suppose.
Chapter Two - The Child: His Story 2021
March
I'm 27 now, My wife has been wanting children for some time now with no luck. I was almost
relieved when the doctors told us that we would never be able to conceive. I never felt that I
was ready, or mature enough to father children.....
....and she told me about her 'new hope', she wants to clone a child from her cells. It sounds
like madness to me but if it will make her happy then who am I to go against it. I just don't
seem able to tell her my concerns.
May
My Wife got the go ahead today to be cloned and implanted with the resulting embryo. I took her
out for special meal to celebrate, why do I feel as if my fate has been sealed...
June
I feel as If I want to weep today. My wife has conceived and it is not my child. This is the
first time that this thought has occurred to me. All the time that she was desperate to get
pregnant with 'our' child I was happy to support her, I don't know how I will feel about this
baby, will I love her? (for it will definitely be a female child, and more than that a near exact
match of my wife. a latter twin.) I love my wife so I will love her child, her clone.
April
Today at 9:22 my wife gave birth to her child whom she has named Emma after her mother. When I
look at the child it shocks me to see how much like my wife she looks. I have often heard people
say, and even said myself, that a child looks like one of its parents, but have never known it to
be so true as it is now. I find my self to be spooked by this little clone of hers.
Chapter Three - Emma: Her story
April
My Child has grown up so fast. She reminds me so much of myself at her age. Sometimes it is
scary how like me she is, but then i remember that she carries an exact copy of my genes and the
only thing that makes us different is the experiences that we have had. She is beautiful and so
intelligent. Today she celebrates her 16th birthday....
.....she talks to my husband for hours but i don't seem able to join in, I feel so jealous, after
all she is my child and not really any relation of his at all. Maybe I should have brought her
up to know the truth....
..... and today I found out she has a boyfriend but he isn't good enough for her. Who could be.
His name is Peter, a common name, he lacks the intelligence to match hers. I just hope she knows
what she is doing. At least she is spending less time my husband.
May
My Husband and I grow more and apart every day. I don't feel the same about him any more because
he is not the father of my child, yet he gives his attention to her and her to him.
....I see the way that they look at each other. He is my husband dammit and she is my child.
What does she think she is playing at, she has a perfectly decent boyfriend of her own, but she
says he is not mature enough for her....
....I think that they are laughing at me all the time....
....see has evil in her eyes.....
June
My doctor has given me drugs to stem my paranoia but I will not take them, I am not mad, and I
cannot tell my husband, the one person I have always been able to lean on. i think that he will
leave me soon....
....evil evil evil Emma....
...lying cow is trying to steal my husband....
...she has youth and I have not, how can I compete.....
Chapter Four - Emma: His story
April
Emma was 16 today. The same age my wife was when I met her. My god she looks like her. She
acts like her and talks like her. I catch myself looking at her the way I used to look at my
wife....
....has become obsessive, no one is ever good enough for her precious child. I don't seem to
matter any more, I get no attention from her. At least Emma likes to spend time with me.
Sometimes we talk for hours about nothing....
....she has a boyfriend, he is called Peter. He is a nice enough boy, but I can't bear to see
Emma spend all her time with him, she seems to talk less and less to me these days.
June
Emma admits that she love my husband. I have thrown the evil witch out. I never want to see her
again. My husband has left too, he has gone after her.
My husband tells me he loves Emma and he wants to divorce me. He can legally do that because I
was too selfish to put his name on the birth certificate. She was my child. I can't believe she
is his now.
Its all my fault I wanted a child so much but in keeping her to myself I have alienated both of
them. I have nothing left. I end this now.
May
Today I told Emma the truth. She was shocked, but I couldn't go on lying to her this was. She
has become the most important thing in my life, she is just like my wife was when I first met
her. I am 35 now but I am having the same thought about a 16 year old that I had when i was 19.
I could never act on my feeling. I love my wife.
June
I think my wife has finally gone mad. She accused Emma of having an affair with me. An
accusation which has no truth. There is no way that Emma could possibly have feelings for me,
she sees me as her father. She cannot ever know the way I feel about her
....She has thrown Emma out. I do not think that i can live with her anymore, she is not the
woman that i married.
Emma told me today that she loves me! I am confounded what shall I do. I love her back probably
more than she will ever know but she is my daughter. She is not my daughter i can tell her I
love her but is right. Emma says we can be together, after all we are no relation to each other
July
Today my wife killed herself. She took an overdose. It is sad but I don't feel any grief, after
all she lives on in Emma, and Emma is now expecting our child, she has done for me what my wife
never could.
Ros
March
I'm 24 now and seems more and more unlikely each day that my husband and I will ever get pregnant
by any conventional means. Yet there is a new hope for us. Just yesterday a new law was passed
which finally allows human cloning to take place. I only hope that i may be among the first to
gain access to this new technology.
May
I'm so excited. I got a letter today from Dr. C, I've been accepted to have my cells cloned.
If all goes well I could be carrying a child by the end of the month.
June
Finally after nearly two months of treatment I have been informed that an embryo implantation has
been successful. I'm pregnant.
Sept
My Husband is becoming more and more distant from me. I can't understand. He wanted a baby as
much as i did. I wonder if he feels any love toward my unborn child, after all it is no relation
of his, it is completely my child, and my child alone.
April
Today at 9:22 am I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, I am going to call her Emma after my
mother. She is so beautiful. My Husband says she looks just like the baby photos he has seen of
me. That is not surprising I suppose.
Chapter Two - The Child: His Story 2021
March
I'm 27 now, My wife has been wanting children for some time now with no luck. I was almost
relieved when the doctors told us that we would never be able to conceive. I never felt that I
was ready, or mature enough to father children.....
....and she told me about her 'new hope', she wants to clone a child from her cells. It sounds
like madness to me but if it will make her happy then who am I to go against it. I just don't
seem able to tell her my concerns.
May
My Wife got the go ahead today to be cloned and implanted with the resulting embryo. I took her
out for special meal to celebrate, why do I feel as if my fate has been sealed...
June
I feel as If I want to weep today. My wife has conceived and it is not my child. This is the
first time that this thought has occurred to me. All the time that she was desperate to get
pregnant with 'our' child I was happy to support her, I don't know how I will feel about this
baby, will I love her? (for it will definitely be a female child, and more than that a near exact
match of my wife. a latter twin.) I love my wife so I will love her child, her clone.
April
Today at 9:22 my wife gave birth to her child whom she has named Emma after her mother. When I
look at the child it shocks me to see how much like my wife she looks. I have often heard people
say, and even said myself, that a child looks like one of its parents, but have never known it to
be so true as it is now. I find my self to be spooked by this little clone of hers.
Chapter Three - Emma: Her story
April
My Child has grown up so fast. She reminds me so much of myself at her age. Sometimes it is
scary how like me she is, but then i remember that she carries an exact copy of my genes and the
only thing that makes us different is the experiences that we have had. She is beautiful and so
intelligent. Today she celebrates her 16th birthday....
.....she talks to my husband for hours but i don't seem able to join in, I feel so jealous, after
all she is my child and not really any relation of his at all. Maybe I should have brought her
up to know the truth....
..... and today I found out she has a boyfriend but he isn't good enough for her. Who could be.
His name is Peter, a common name, he lacks the intelligence to match hers. I just hope she knows
what she is doing. At least she is spending less time my husband.
May
My Husband and I grow more and apart every day. I don't feel the same about him any more because
he is not the father of my child, yet he gives his attention to her and her to him.
....I see the way that they look at each other. He is my husband dammit and she is my child.
What does she think she is playing at, she has a perfectly decent boyfriend of her own, but she
says he is not mature enough for her....
....I think that they are laughing at me all the time....
....see has evil in her eyes.....
June
My doctor has given me drugs to stem my paranoia but I will not take them, I am not mad, and I
cannot tell my husband, the one person I have always been able to lean on. i think that he will
leave me soon....
....evil evil evil Emma....
...lying cow is trying to steal my husband....
...she has youth and I have not, how can I compete.....
Chapter Four - Emma: His story
April
Emma was 16 today. The same age my wife was when I met her. My god she looks like her. She
acts like her and talks like her. I catch myself looking at her the way I used to look at my
wife....
....has become obsessive, no one is ever good enough for her precious child. I don't seem to
matter any more, I get no attention from her. At least Emma likes to spend time with me.
Sometimes we talk for hours about nothing....
....she has a boyfriend, he is called Peter. He is a nice enough boy, but I can't bear to see
Emma spend all her time with him, she seems to talk less and less to me these days.
June
Emma admits that she love my husband. I have thrown the evil witch out. I never want to see her
again. My husband has left too, he has gone after her.
My husband tells me he loves Emma and he wants to divorce me. He can legally do that because I
was too selfish to put his name on the birth certificate. She was my child. I can't believe she
is his now.
Its all my fault I wanted a child so much but in keeping her to myself I have alienated both of
them. I have nothing left. I end this now.
May
Today I told Emma the truth. She was shocked, but I couldn't go on lying to her this was. She
has become the most important thing in my life, she is just like my wife was when I first met
her. I am 35 now but I am having the same thought about a 16 year old that I had when i was 19.
I could never act on my feeling. I love my wife.
June
I think my wife has finally gone mad. She accused Emma of having an affair with me. An
accusation which has no truth. There is no way that Emma could possibly have feelings for me,
she sees me as her father. She cannot ever know the way I feel about her
....She has thrown Emma out. I do not think that i can live with her anymore, she is not the
woman that i married.
Emma told me today that she loves me! I am confounded what shall I do. I love her back probably
more than she will ever know but she is my daughter. She is not my daughter i can tell her I
love her but is right. Emma says we can be together, after all we are no relation to each other
July
Today my wife killed herself. She took an overdose. It is sad but I don't feel any grief, after
all she lives on in Emma, and Emma is now expecting our child, she has done for me what my wife
never could.
Ros
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Very good.
But if it had foetuses it would have been better.
You know you want to write a story about foetuses.
But if it had foetuses it would have been better.
You know you want to write a story about foetuses.
Very nice, but you have one fatal flaw - by 2021 we'll ALL BE DEAD ANYWAY!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
When that asteroid smacks into this God-forsaken planet i'm gonna be the first to surf the giant tidal wave which it causes!!!
*cough*
But seriously, though, very nice.
When that asteroid smacks into this God-forsaken planet i'm gonna be the first to surf the giant tidal wave which it causes!!!
*cough*
But seriously, though, very nice.
Fuzzy wrote:
> Good story, thought provoking.
>
> Weird thought as it is, do you think it's possible that this could
> become an all to common in a future where cloning may become just as
> common as IVF? Would urges inside us seeing a younger version of who
> we fell for originally be so strong that you feel you have to actually
> relive the past, maybe change it even, with the daughter of someone
> you married 5, 10, 15 years ago?
>
> Maybhe, but we can hope not.
>
> Nice :)
I think that human cloaning is really scarey and could lead to all sorts of scarey problems apart from the ones I have pointed out in the story. The scariest thing is we have technology to do this and the only thing stopping some scientists is the law. How long before the law gets changed and this becomes acceptable in the same way as IVF as you point out is acceptable.
If you were a parent who had lost a child a young age in some accident would you be tempted to have them cloaned. And if you did, could you treat them as a seperate entity to your dead child, or would they be forever in the shadow of their dead sibling.
Cubist Wrote:
>However i was wondering that if the original wife had a genetic disorder
>stopping her having children shouldn't emma have it to meanig she >couldn't have her "dads" children.
There are many ways of being infertile, not all of these are genetic and some only have a genitic component. For example, %14 of women have endometriosis, only a small percentage of these women are infertile and it is thought that this infrtility although excaserbated by the endometriosis is also affected by environmental factors such as diet and pollution. Don't forget also that many women have been rendered unfertile by unfortunate accidents.
Beefcake wrote:
>Interesting and well written. My only comment would be this: the diaries >would be more revealing if it contained other thoughts apart from those >focused on the cloning and related issues. This would provide a deeper >insight into the characters and there would be scope for further >predictions too.
I agree, but I wrote this in my lunch hour for the forum so a) I didn't have much time and b) I didn't want it to be too long or no one would read it :). I think I might flesh it out a bit in my own time for my own amusement.
Goatboy wrote:
>It made me feel dirty.
>But that's a good thing. Not because making someone feel uncomfortable >is a good thing itself, but you communicated your ideas well enough to >make it unpleasant.
I know what you mean and thats good because it had the desired effect then. Thanks
Ros
> Good story, thought provoking.
>
> Weird thought as it is, do you think it's possible that this could
> become an all to common in a future where cloning may become just as
> common as IVF? Would urges inside us seeing a younger version of who
> we fell for originally be so strong that you feel you have to actually
> relive the past, maybe change it even, with the daughter of someone
> you married 5, 10, 15 years ago?
>
> Maybhe, but we can hope not.
>
> Nice :)
I think that human cloaning is really scarey and could lead to all sorts of scarey problems apart from the ones I have pointed out in the story. The scariest thing is we have technology to do this and the only thing stopping some scientists is the law. How long before the law gets changed and this becomes acceptable in the same way as IVF as you point out is acceptable.
If you were a parent who had lost a child a young age in some accident would you be tempted to have them cloaned. And if you did, could you treat them as a seperate entity to your dead child, or would they be forever in the shadow of their dead sibling.
Cubist Wrote:
>However i was wondering that if the original wife had a genetic disorder
>stopping her having children shouldn't emma have it to meanig she >couldn't have her "dads" children.
There are many ways of being infertile, not all of these are genetic and some only have a genitic component. For example, %14 of women have endometriosis, only a small percentage of these women are infertile and it is thought that this infrtility although excaserbated by the endometriosis is also affected by environmental factors such as diet and pollution. Don't forget also that many women have been rendered unfertile by unfortunate accidents.
Beefcake wrote:
>Interesting and well written. My only comment would be this: the diaries >would be more revealing if it contained other thoughts apart from those >focused on the cloning and related issues. This would provide a deeper >insight into the characters and there would be scope for further >predictions too.
I agree, but I wrote this in my lunch hour for the forum so a) I didn't have much time and b) I didn't want it to be too long or no one would read it :). I think I might flesh it out a bit in my own time for my own amusement.
Goatboy wrote:
>It made me feel dirty.
>But that's a good thing. Not because making someone feel uncomfortable >is a good thing itself, but you communicated your ideas well enough to >make it unpleasant.
I know what you mean and thats good because it had the desired effect then. Thanks
Ros
Beefcake wrote:
> A damn sight better than other efforts I've seen recently...
LOL! If I think that means why I...err...think it means.
Or something.
> A damn sight better than other efforts I've seen recently...
LOL! If I think that means why I...err...think it means.
Or something.
Very good. Still not sure how i feel about the story itself (read it yesterday), but thought provoking, well written, and very original.
Interesting and well written. My only comment would be this: the diaries would be more revealing if it contained other thoughts apart from those focused on the cloning and related issues. This would provide a deeper insight into the characters and there would be scope for further predictions too.
A damn sight better than other efforts I've seen recently...
A damn sight better than other efforts I've seen recently...
Very creative and original... I liked it.
It made me feel dirty.
But that's a good thing. Not because making someone feel uncomfortable is a good thing itself, but you communicated your ideas well enough to make it unpleasant.
That sounds wrong, damn.
What I mean is, I thought it was superbly written and wasn't afraid to go into areas that some may censor themselves for.
I'm not an English teacher, but I'd love to read more please.
A
But that's a good thing. Not because making someone feel uncomfortable is a good thing itself, but you communicated your ideas well enough to make it unpleasant.
That sounds wrong, damn.
What I mean is, I thought it was superbly written and wasn't afraid to go into areas that some may censor themselves for.
I'm not an English teacher, but I'd love to read more please.
A
That was a really great story and i really enjoyed reading all of it. However i was wondering that if the original wife had a genetic disorder stopping her having children shouldn't emma have it to meanig she couldn't have her "dads" children. Anyway apart from that it's great WELL DONE!
Good story, thought provoking.
Weird thought as it is, do you think it's possible that this could become an all to common in a future where cloning may become just as common as IVF? Would urges inside us seeing a younger version of who we fell for originally be so strong that you feel you have to actually relive the past, maybe change it even, with the daughter of someone you married 5, 10, 15 years ago?
Maybhe, but we can hope not.
Nice :)
Weird thought as it is, do you think it's possible that this could become an all to common in a future where cloning may become just as common as IVF? Would urges inside us seeing a younger version of who we fell for originally be so strong that you feel you have to actually relive the past, maybe change it even, with the daughter of someone you married 5, 10, 15 years ago?
Maybhe, but we can hope not.
Nice :)
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