Fly People - by Yufei Xiao - Drops and Clumps
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First week impressions at the wet lab | Warning: slightly gross
None of us were Fly People1, and none of us will be. We came because the flies are clones2 of us to understand ourselves through infinite generations of them. I never intended to kill them! I just wanted to know how creatures make their bodies.3 Yet 1000 flies died in this room each week. Then another 10004 flies were born each week. I even felt like a mother, I even fed them apple juice. They wouldn’t have lived long in the wild. I also felt like a farmer: We are so proud to extract data from their skin and guts, so excited to learn what life is from their dying. What if…
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