The Faded Sutra
The air in the factory tasted of iron and wet wool. It was a heavy, metallic tang that coated the back of the throat and settled in the lungs like fine dust. I worked the press on the fourth floor, a rhythmic, thundering machine that stamped out steel brackets for the new railway carriages. My name was Arthur, and I was a man of forty years, bent by labor, my hands mapped with the white scars...
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