Off to the engine factory

I was one of several American high-school exchange students in Russia, but instead of going to school, we were sent to work in an engine factory where they took away our phones. One by one, my peers disappeared, until only two of us remained. The only way out was to feign illness. We wouldn’t want to make the other workers sick, would we?

I take this dream as a sign of our times.

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[“Only fools and children talk about their dreams”: Dr. Edward Jeffreys (Robert Douglas), in Thunder on the Hill (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1951).]