Run Lab Rat Run

Description

The tests never stopped. When Media woke up after seizures or CPR, they just reset and started the tests again. You’ll be fine, they said. You can take it. You’re nearly indestructible.

She knew it was a lie. Genetic test subjects like her usually died by thirty, and they always died in pain.

But on her 21st birthday, she’s given a chance to escape the lab. She just has to run in the deadliest race on earth so the company that owns her can do illegal off-book testing on her “product line.” If she finishes the race and the tests work, she and her family will be safe and she might live forever. If she doesn’t, they’ll be deoptimized and dumped back in natural slums to starve and die.

In the near future, there’s nothing worse than being merely human. Or is there?