Defying Doomsday: Stories of Fear, Hope and Survival

by Tsana Dolichva

“Equality means that … even if we’re not the same, we get the same chances. “But here’s the thing. People like me, or like those in the med bay—I’m not confident about our survival chances. I know you aren’t, either.” I shifted my weight. “You can’t promise us we’ll live. I get that. But you can promise us that, if we don’t survive, it’s not ‘cause you didn’t give us an equal chance. It’s not ‘cause you sped it along.”

Everyone seemed to have this peculiar idea that making it look like I had two hands meant I’d been fixed, mended, or cured. It wasn’t just that it didn’t fix me. It was that I didn’t think I’d ever been broken.