Byline Surprise Bookstore

This bookstore is a mix of newer, but mostly older literary works. If you are looking for any top-­seller books, you probably will not find it in this store. Sort of like a Half-Priced books store, but for the more obscure and lesser known authors of the world. The books here are party experimental writing, and college student published works of art through independent/self publishing.



This leaves a window open for a collection of books written by either (1) the same person evolving any number of plot lines or (2) multiple authors writing about a barely talked about similar idea that could be a significant discovery.



The bookstore has a fair number of customers, but most of them do not find anything or appreciate the type of books that are here and leave without purchases. A local community college or some other type of school in essence subsidizes and funds the entire shop. Perhaps this bookstore could get their main income by selling textbooks and all the other non-school texts are what we really want to concentrate on.

Selene Destine

Selene Destine

Age: 18

Family: Younger sister of Ranai and twin sister of Sirus Destine. Parents are Douglus and Katherine Destine.

Appearance: 5'4" slender build, Long (half way down her back) black hair with tiny sections of neon colored hair. Blue eyes. Dresses kind of girlie punk.

Interests/Personality: Sarcastic sense of humor,

History:

Interview:

Plot

Setting: The Plaza, an outdoor mall and apartments.

Plot Ideas:

Scientist attempting to cultivate the perfect race attracts people with nice work environments and cheap housing. In order to obtain a job you must take a drug test which is in actuality just a ploy to get a profile of your DNA if you have negative dormant genes you are not hired, if you have more active genes in the areas which would make you superior you are definitely hired, people with no negative dormant genes are hired based on merit. His idea is that if people work together and live together they will be more likely to "breed" with each other (interbreeding populace).

Scientist is descendant of  Alfred Russel Wallace who is credited as the independent co-discoverer of the natural selection. It's one of the great stories of biology that Wallace came to Darwin with this wonderful idea which Darwin, actually, had been working on, but not publishing, for years previously (Darwin was delaying publication until he had as air-tight a case for evolution by natural selection as possible). Wallace, through his generosity, agreed to delay publication so that Darwin could present the theory publicly on the same occasion.

dormant genes

olfactory

memory

rejuvenate our body and reinvigorate our life

Negative hereditary genes

schizophrenia

heart disease

diabetes

activation causes

environmental stresses

a gene in yeast (activation transcription factor-2 or ATF-2) modifications

heat

Side effects

physiological role of ATF-2, especially in the brain, is unknown

decreased sleep time (time of bout not number of bouts)

increased sleep time (time of bout not number of bouts)

affected the sleep rebound after sleep deprivation and the arousal threshold

negatively regulated locomotor activity  (activated by the locomotor while it increases sleep)