Alive!
Writhing in the incubator, the disparate cells had begun to gather, joining together and forming themselves into—the doctor watched as the heart began to beat.
Alive!
Not even fully formed, but the muscles were there, the contractions already begun. A living heart, circulating the embryotic fluids it was built of. He watched as the soup’s sepia color darkened. A rosy, pink tint spread and deepened into—blood!
Living!
He could hear it now—ba-dum, ba-dum—echoing within the steel drum. He pulled his eyes away from the porthole to check the valves and gauges. Everything was flowing perfectly, but his window into the womb he had fashioned was obscured as the thick glass shone with a crimson light.
Ba-Dum! Ba-Dum!
The echoes of the heart filled the laboratory as the shimmering, red eye of his creation cast its hot glow over the darkened room, turning the hidden chamber to blood.
Tale Told 
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