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Interview: On Any Given Day [MultiFormat]
eBook by Maureen McHugh
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: The following interview was conducted with Emma Chicheck. In the summer of 2018, a fifteen year old student came into a health clinic in the suburban town of Charlotte, outside Cleveland, Ohio with a sexually transmitted version of a proto-virus called pv414, which had recently been identified as a result of contaminated batches of genetic material associated with the telemerase therapy used in rejuvenation. In the near future, seventy year olds can be made to seem to be twenty again, but at what cost. And what does it mean to be young the first time, in a world where some people are young the second time?
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Starlight 3, ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2003
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [100 KB], eReader (PDB) [32 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [18 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [17 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [97 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [87 KB], hiebook (KML) [56 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [53 KB], iSilo (PDB) [15 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [19 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [47 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [30 KB]
Words: 6360
Reading time: 18-25 min.
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"...my favorite story, I think, was Maureen McHugh's "Interview: On Any Given Day," about a teenaged girl who becomes infected with a potentially cancerous agent after an odd affair with a rejuvenated older man--the story not only describes a near future teenage milieu quite well, but it's particularly good at what it's really about, in kind of a sideways fashion: the effect of this rejuvenation technology on people, particularly the sad older man who has the affair with the main character. This was a very real-seeming story--McHugh at close to her best."--Rich Horton, Tangent Online (Learn more about Tangent Online, the Internet's leading SF&F short fiction review website)
Emma: I had this virus, and it was inside me, and it could have been causing all these weird kinds of cancers-- Interviewer: What kind of cancers? Emma: All sorts of weird stuff I'd never heard of like hairy cell leukemia, and cancerous lesions in parts of your bones and cancer in your pancreas. But I wasn't sick. I mean I didn't feel sick. And now, even after all the anti-virals, now I worry about it all the time. Now I'm always thinking I'm sick. It's like something was stolen from me that I never knew I had. (The following is a transcript from an interview for the On Any Given Day presentation of 4/12/2021. This transcript does not represent the full presentation, and more interviews and information are present on the site. On Any Given Day is made possible by the National Public Internet, by NPIBoston.org affiliate, and by a grant from the Carrol-Johnson Charitable Family Trust. For information on how to purchase this or any other full site presentation on cdm, please check NPIboston.org.) * * * *Pop-up quotes and site notes in the interview are included with this transcript. * * * *The following interview was conducted with Emma Chicheck. In the summer of 2018, a fifteen year old student came into a health clinic in the suburban town of Charlotte, outside Cleveland, Ohio with a sexually transmitted version of a proto-virus called pv414, which was just starting to be identified as a result of contaminated batches of genetic material associated with the telemerase therapy used in rejuvenation. The virus had only been seen previously in rejuvenated elders, and the presence of the virus in teenagers was at first seen as possible evidence that the virus had changed vectors. The medical detective work done to trace the virus, and the picture of teenaged behavior that emerged was the basis of the site documentary, called "The Abandoned Children." Emma was one of the students identified with the virus. * * * *The Site map provides links to a description of the proto-virus, a map of the transmission of the virus from Terry Sydnowski through three girls to a total of eleven other people, and interviews with state health officials. * * * *Emma: I was fourteen when I lost my virginity. I was drunk, and there was this guy named Luis, he was giving me these drinks that taste like melon, this green stuff that everybody was drinking when they could get it. He said he really liked all my Egyptian stuff and he kept playing with my slave bracelet. The bracelet has chains that go to rings you wear on your thumb, your middle finger and your ring finger. "Can you be my slave?" he kept asking and at first I thought that was funny because he was the one bringing me drinks, you know? But we kept kissing and then we went into the bedroom and he felt my breasts and then he wanted to have sex. I felt as if I'd led him on, you know? So I didn't say no. I saw him again a couple of times after that, but he didn't pay much attention to me. He was older and he didn't go to my school. I regret it. I wish it had been a little more special and I was really too young. Sometimes I thought that if I were a boy I'd be one of those boys who goes into school one day and starts shooting people. (Music--"Poor Little Rich Girl" by Tony Bennett.)
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