I don't think I quite understand this prompt, but whatever, it got me writing something at least.
The factory was a box, and the box was a machine. A series of internal mechanisms guided the production of the mysterious objects that the men who worked for the factory handled every morning. It was a simple enough job, but there were rules. There were very specific rules.
THE RULES:
1) The objects that come out of the box come out of the box clean and they must remain clean.
Your fingers, when touching the objects that come out of the box must remain grease and dirt free.
You may wear gloves, but the gloves must be clothe and free of dirt or sweat.
2) You may not inquire into as to what the objects that come out of the box are.
Your job is to take the objects as they come out of the box and put them in packing boxes for shipment.
3) You may not steal any of the objects.
The objects have a specific use that you are forbidden from learning of.
The use-value of the objects depends on this secrecy.
4) If you are discovered trying to decode the shipping labels, you will be terminated.
5) Any unplanned absence from your position will result in a termination.
6) You may not ask any questions, the penalty for this offense being termination.
7) You must not speak to your co-workers about the objects that come out of the box that is the factory.
Gossip about the objects will result in termination.
Three men were employed by the factory that was a box, and these three men were responsible for taking the objects that came from the box that was a factory and putting them in other boxes for the purpose of shipping them to other places. The first man's name is Brant.
Brant is a single man who lives in a one-bedroom apartment in an apartment complex near the factory that is a box that the objects that he packages and ships come out of. Brant has no friends and does little more than sleep at his apartment and work at the factory that is a box. One day Brant cuts his finger on the side of a box and blood begins to pour out of the wound. The next day he is fired.
The second man's name is Roland. Roland has a wife and two children. At night his wife presses him for details about his job. He tells her that it is a job that is paying the family's bills, and that is all she needs to know. He has gotten accustomed to falling asleep while his wife cries with her face thrown into her pillow. One day, after years of internalizing his wife's sadness and his own ignorance towards his own accomplishments, Roland turns to his coworker and shouts "I just wish I knew what we were doing." The next day he is fired.
The third man who works at the factory that is a box that produces objects is named Eric. Eric has just started working at the factory after graduating from high school in a nearby town. He found the job listed with vague details in his local newspaper. Due to his lack of real interest in anything the world has to offer, and his utter absence of curiosity about existence, he applied for the job and was quickly assigned his position. He will work at the factory until he retires sixty years later. He will die soon after that, rich, without any one to tell his lack of secrets to.
The factory will hire three more men once these three are gone, and three more after that. The factory that is a box will continue to produce objects with no discernible use until one day a bomb will fall and destroy the factory. A team of experts will come and remove all evidence that the factory ever existed, and the factory that was a box and the objects that came out of it will never be seen again.
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