The Distant Threshold

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The scale in the counting room was a beast of cast iron, its pan dented and warped from decades of holding coal and cotton, and I stood before it, weighing the day’s output against the quota, knowing that every pound short was a pound taken from my own throat. I had been a foreman at the Halloway Mill for twenty-two years, a man whose hands were permanently stained with the black dust of the...

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