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Snowy
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Snowy

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For Bob, his work as a lab technician was just a job. He didn't get involved with the people or the lab animals - until the day they began to experiment on Snowy. (Short story, over 9,000 words.)

LanguageEnglish
PublisherGraham Storrs
Release dateJul 14, 2013
ISBN9780987186775
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Graham Storrs

Graham Storrs is a science fiction writer who lives miles from anywhere in rural Australia with his wife and a Tonkinese cat. He has published many short stories in magazines and anthologies as well as three children's science books and a large number of academic and technical pieces in the fields of psychology, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.He has published a number of sci-fi novels, in four series; Timesplash (three books), the Rik Sylver sci-fi thriller series (three books), the Canta Libre space opera trilogy. and the Deep Fracture trilogy. He has also published an augmented reality thriller, "Heaven is a Place on Earth", a sci-fi comedy novel, "Cargo Cult", a dark comedy time travel novel, "Time and Tyde", and an urban sci-fi thriller, "Mindrider."

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    Snowy - Graham Storrs

    SNOWY

    by

    Graham Storrs

    Snowy

    Graham Storrs

    Copyright Graham Storrs 2013

    Published by Canta Libre at Smashwords

    ISBN: 978-0-9871867-7-5 

    Book design by Graham Storrs

    Cover design by Graham Storrs

    All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

    Dedication

    For my wife, Christine, my daughter, Becky, and the many cats who have shared our lives over the years.

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    Snowy

    It’s funny you know, ‘cos I never really liked cats. Well, of course, I used to look after them and all but that was my job. Now, when I look at Snowy, it’s hard to remember how I used to look at her, like she was just, you know, a dumb animal, something beneath me, something to be used and discarded. I could say that it was working at the lab that made me like that, hardened me, or something, but that wouldn’t be right. If I’m really honest with myself, I was already that way when I started. It’s the way most of us are, don’t you think?

    And, to be fair, Snowy was nothing special in those days, just another laboratory animal like all the others. Professor Nichols had hundreds of them. Rats mostly but there were a dozen or so cats and even four little capuchin monkeys. Cute little guys. Like little old men. You’d swear they were human sometimes. That’s funny too, looking back. Two of the capuchins died when Nichols was practising getting the implants right. That’s why he started on the cats. He said the monkeys were no good ‘cos their brains weren’t regular enough for the stereotaxis equipment. It didn’t seem to me that the cats were any better ‘cos he lost five of them too before he got it right with old Snowy. Cheaper though, I suppose.

    I remember the day it happened like it was yesterday. Nichols was all excited in that irritating, twitchy way he has, and all his handmaidens were running about like headless chickens. Me and Dan were running about too. As usual we were the only ones actually doing any work and not flapping about fussing and fretting. Dan was OK. He was just a young lad but he had his head screwed on the right way and he knew how to get the job done despite

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