Thanks for the kind words @jrhughes. I'm glad you're enjoying the posts! I've tried blogging before and got very little feedback, even though there were page views. I had no idea what people thought. I will keeping plugging along and hopefully I will stay entertaining!

I had a similar idea as your friend in a story about genetic engineering. Instead of making everyone look the same, I remarked on how people looked like clones of celebrities that were popular at the time they were born. I styled it after the story of Exodus, where the genetically enhanced were the Egyptians and the natural borns were the Hebrews. A natural born child has, by chance, traits that are just as good as those who were engineered. He of course is adopted by parents in the upper class and believes he is in fact engineered until he learns the truth. At that time, there is a plague sweeping the engineered population because of an error in the "manufacturing" process that has accumulated among all engineered people. The natural borns take advantage of this weakness to rise up against the more priveleged class. Now our hero must decide to which world he belongs.

My flash fiction story, Divide the Sea, which appears on this site, distills that much longer story to something more appropriate for blogging. The title of course refers to Moses and the Red Sea, but it is also a metaphor for the things that divide us and the choices we make that cannot be reversed.