It Begins

Being a computer nerd had its perks: work from home, minimal interactions with bosses and customers, time to game during the day and unlimited access to survival guides. Yeah... that last one is not a super big perk but it is helpful considering what's happening. There are no more children being born. All of the women are gone, dead, deceased, unalived, 10 feet under.

And so my skills are supposed to help program these artificial wombs that surround me and the 15 other scientist and computer nerds in the massive room. Its been 35 years since those with XX chromosomes started dying off in mass waves. The video footage from that time is pretty horrendous, especially the responses to this. But that's also when this program started. When the world's top scientists all started looking for ways to create human life without a human womb or egg. 

So far, its been a total failure.

Its impossible. Whether God or the Universe or Fate, or whatever you believe in, exists, they don't want us creating life without their intervention. Sitting here after spending the past 27 years of my life dedicated to this, its finally hit me. There is nothing that can change this. Nothing that will create anyone in the XX genotype or allow for the combination of X and Y chromosomes from different XY genotype donors. 

And that's it. I've had it sitting is the dim room, spending countless nights and months trying to decipher the secret. Because its a secret that doesn't exist. And I refuse to continue trying to solve that something that can never be solved.

I stand up from my chair, collect the few little trinkets I had and walked out. No one stopped me. I don't think anyone even looked up from whatever rabbit hole they think they found. I left my job and my life as I knew it and went home. If the world was really ending, then I was going to celebrate the time I had left. I was going to do things! Things that involved being outside of a lab! 

I just need to figure that out...