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Heuving, Jeanne Hiebert, Ted KEEFER, LINDSEY 2024-09-09T23:02:04Z 2024-09-09 2024 KEEFER_washington_0250O_26922.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1773/51751 Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2024 Where do we place the desire to use our grief as a souvenir of what we’ve lost? Propagation envisions a world that turns this kind of grief into an asset by processing it into a source of literal power. In this alternate world, human bodies produce a grief-triggered hormone – memorin – that can power their electrical grids. When a person misses someone deeply, their memorin levels skyrocket. Authorities then extract the hormone and funnel it into their cities’ electrical systems. A groundbreaking series of experiments identifies an even more potent source of memorin: the grief people feel toward their childhood selves. Through the narrative of a woman giving birth to her younger self, this novel explores the intricate redundancies of the grief we feel about our childhoods. How can we let go of the past in a way that honors it while providing an honest kind of closure? application/pdf en_US none Alternate Reality Biopunk Cloning Endocrinology Grief Science-Fiction Creative writing Literature Propagation Thesis Restrict to UW for 5 years -- then make Open Access 2029-08-14T23:02:04Z open.access