Christopher Alexander Kaplan

Six of One

Short Story

Sophia’s life spirals after an intimate evening with Jack, whose recent breakthrough in genetic resurrection is the talk of the scientific world. When she returns to find Jack with another woman—her exact double—she uncovers a hidden lab containing six cloned versions of herself. Forced to confront betrayal, loss, and the shattering truth of her own mortality, Sophia grapples with the boundaries of love, consent, and selfhood. Jack’s desperate longing to preserve her at all costs collides with Sophia’s need for autonomy and truth, culminating in a confrontation that challenges the meaning of identity, memory, and being “enough.”