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Heartwired takes place in the near future. Medical advancements are being made every day due to new technology and research. A women known simply as "Doc" believes she has made what could quite possibly be the medical break through of her generation. Bringing the dead back to life. No more loss, no more grieving, quite possibly eternal life. Or at least that's what she thought. Deeming her research too risky, Doc's funders have refused her healthy corpses for her experiments. Undeterred Doc convinces them to allow her corpses with brain damage. Determined she would never be successful the funders allowed this to get the crazed young doctor off their backs. Doc was successful though. So successful she managed to bring four corpses back to the world of the living. When the public got wind of the experiments though, there was public outcry. Medical and Spiritual Ethics questioned as well as the very classification of these human/machine hybrids. Doc has now taken her experiments and fled, fearing for her and their safety. Tired, exhausted and injured Doc and her experiments flee day by day from those who look to see them destroyed. Doc has yet another secret though. She has never told her four creations that their brains as well as their bodies are partly synthetic. So when the youngest of her creations, Copper, literally short circuits, her previously loyal creations have some questions. Each forced to look at their own origins and mortality, the three remaining creations as well as Doc are forced to tackle life's hardest questions. What defines a person? What does it mean to live? And possibly most important of all. Where does love come from?
Written by Anonymous
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