Literature
Catching Pinocchio Syndrome
Peering through a microscope, Katie swapped between several transparent plates containing microscopic vessels and briefly watched their interaction. On the laptop next to her, a brief thirty second clip of a movie played in an endless loop, Katie having long tuned out the sound after several hours of tedious concentration. After flicking between several plate samples, she turned off the microscope and sighed in satisfaction, believing to have finally achieved the results she was hoping for. She paused the movie playing on her laptop and shuffled her chair across the small room she was enclosed in, placing the plates into a tiny device in the