I sat beside him for an hour. Then two.
She scraped it off. Rehydrated it. Fed it. as3008
The math was obscene. The file showed quarterly revenue reports, tax deductions, depreciation schedules on his own body. His skin had been leased to a burn treatment research lab. His marrow had been biopsied seventy-three times. His eyes, still open under their translucent lids, had been used to test retinal implant firmware because his optic nerve remained pristine. I sat beside him for an hour
And every morning, before Sofia baked, she whispered into the dough: still open under their translucent lids
