N-words, by Ted Kosmatka

Everybody knows about "the N-Word", and if your first language is not English watch this funny video and you'll understand.
But what if, in the future, "the N-Word" would stand for something like ... Neanderthal?

A beautiful story by Ted Kosmatka available as a free audiobook thanks to Escape Pod:
• N-words

They came from test tubes. They came pale as ghosts with eyes as blue-white as glacier ice. They came first out of Korea.
I try to picture David’s face in my head, but I can’t. They’ve told me this is temporary—a kind of shock that happens sometimes when you’ve seen a person die that way. Although I try to picture David’s face, it’s only his pale eyes I can see.
My sister squeezes my hand in the back of the limo. “It’s almost over,” she says. Up the road, against the long, wrought iron railing, the protestors grow excited as our procession approaches. They’re standing in the snow on both sides of the cemetery gates, men and women wearing hats and gloves and looks of righteous indignation, carrying signs I refuse to read.

Author: Regular Expression, for AZ10.com ~ 31 May 2009

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