The Price of the Machine
The Hartley factory had been killing people slowly for three generations, and Emily knew it. The air was thick with coal dust. The machines never stopped. The workers never complained—not out of loyalty, but out of exhaustion. Her father had worked the floor for forty years and now coughed up black phlegm every morning. Her mother had died young, worn out by twelve children and sixteen-hour...
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