So, I'm catching up on Pseudopod right now, after letting myself fall behind. I'm not posting on every story but this one... well, it irked me.
Initially, I kept boggling about the logistics of the experiment - where do they get all the kids from? Not in the immediate sense, but originally - do they have human breeding farms somewhere? Because the experiment requires its victims to be raised without human contact, it can't just be that these are orphans or kidnap victims.
That would have been forgivable, though, if the experiment was the topic of the story. But after all the original setup and character work, the story just squanders it all away on a zombie story. I just felt disappointed at the end - there was so much brilliant horror here, and it was eaten up by a cliche.