Signing Day
*birth-loans are a type of loan designed to help parents afford the genetic modification of their children.
At the news of their *birth-loan's approval, Hazel orders woodland wallpaper for her nursery. She adds family heirlooms. A worn jewelry box, gifted from a favorite uncle. Her great aunt’s cross-stitch of Peter Rabbit eating a carrot from Mr. McGregor’s garden. Her grandmother’s hickory rocking chair, so inexplicably comfortable despite its wooden frame.