zombie cat girls??
Anyway this story is very detailed and nice. This definately calls for a 'develop your story' topic! I would like to see aero's horror writing style. You do know a lot of sciency stuff so i'd bet there'd be a lot of intricatacy in it.
So... since people are using genes to become beautiful all the zombies will be hotties, right? Oooooooh. (Also, now i get the zombie cat girl reference)
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(... Have you thought about hydrophobia? A major characteristic of rabies infected organisms is hydrophobia, right? ... Wouldn't it be kinda anti-climatic to escape using water and stuff...)