Wicker is the story of a closely connected group of people all impacted by the rape and murder of seventeen-year-old Anna Kat Moore. It’s set in a not-too-distant future where the possibilities of DNA seem limitless. The cloning of dead people is considered just another fertility treatment, usually for couples unable to conceive at all or with hereditary diseases they don’t want to pass on to natural children.
A couple of years after Anna Kat’s murder, it still remains unsolved and Dr Davis Moore, her father and a cloning specialist, asks the police to return Anna Kat’s personal belongings. When they arrive, they mistakenly include a vial of the killer’s DNA. He thinks about it for a while and then uses the DNA to create a clone, hoping to one day look into the eyes of his daughter’s killer. Continue reading
Single White Female Writer 