Title: Verisimilitude

Author: gnohnuj

Length: 8 Chapters

Status: Completed

Rated M

Description:

“Nothing is unreal.”

In a world where gene therapy is as common as your flu medicine, where couples sit on comfortable chairs, drinking tea while lazily describing their 'ideal child' to artists, and conceiving that child months later. In a world where no one has to suffer from gene mutations, physical disabilities and genetic diseases. Would you live in that perfect world, where your DNA is constructed before you were even brought to this world? Would you have the complete assurance of having the most efficient form of medication - gene therapy - injected into your cells at the first and slightest sign of deformity? 

A perfect world is not so perfect. With the increased awareness of the prevailing physical diseases and disabilities and the desperate efforts to make everyone physically equal, there is the negligence of a more dire, corrupt disease:

Mental disease.

The lack of awareness of this type of illness, and the frustrating inability to detect it in early stages, have caused the overlooking of such a benign form of abnomality, and with its purely latent state, couples more frequently report to find their child not as perf