Working (Part 1)

Bruno had started working at the factory in his early 20s. He worked hard, but in an unfortunate accident, his hand got crushed by a machine. The company, however, had an interesting benefit and offered to replace Bruno’s hand with a robotic part. It was weird having a robotic hand, but he found that he could actually do some things better than before (and it had no danger of being crushed). As he aged and his health faded, the company offered to replace more parts, often times these were robotic parts but sometimes they were bilogical transplants from other humans. The company didn’t allow Bruno to be picky. Everything just kept getting replaced, even as he aged. After 150 years working there, Bruno realized the human parts were more female than male, and he was easily more machine than man. He often dreamed of retiring, but the replacement parts weren’t free. He could never afford to stop working. He just had to keep going like this forever.