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Weekly Contest #22
Carlos sat in the brown metal chair and stared at the rusted pipe across the room. The basement was dark and the air was cool and smelled mildly of mold. The Tdp-5 pill press hummed, clanking intermittently in the background as it took the mixture of micro-crystalline cellulose, natrosol, and magnesium stearate and pressed it into square tablets which slid down the chute into the tupperware below. The kitchen timer counted down 5...4...3...2...1. The alarm startled Carlos’s mind back into the room. He walked over to the Tdp-5, bent down,...
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