Red
by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $0.99 USD. 1590 words.
Published by Olo Books on July 6, 2011. .
A pregnant teenager donates her embryo to a recipient mother who wants red-haired children. The doctor who pioneered the technology performs the microsurgery exquisitely.
Everyone should live happily ever after.
Except this isn't a fairy tale.
"Red," a short story originally published in Nature's Future science fiction section.