NOTESo. I've been too lazy and distracted by work in recent months to write.This combines ideas from several stories I've been thinking of, so it's much longer than most things I've published here. This was prompted both by the image and by the setting in Buenos Aires in the story by @eperales above. I've covered similar themes in other stories. The most similar would be this one, another Darwin story with a scifi twist: https://mastodon.social/@TheNudeSurrealist/114129002306623300