you read an article on the domain asimov.press about a very narrow, deep slice of biology, and expect it not to be long-winded? yeah, it’d be nice if there were a nice bow to wrap around the whole thing, but said bow is not (yet) extant. how much shorter would you pike the story to be? it took me literally 5 minutes to read, and i easily could have read something else titillating were i bored at any point…