A man is trapped in a mysterious machine, absorbing him in his dark endless task. We follow him through his journey within the machine, as he describes his experiences being contacted by countless callers, reading out a pre-approved script robotically. He recounts the steps that brought him to this point, finding a job advert in a seedy Soho bar, back in the past when he was a free man. 
The tale follows him through his loneliness reading out the time to thousands, void of human contact and missing the simple introduction, hello. There is one saving light though, a woman he met moments before entering the machine. She too is trapped, reading out a different script within the machine, “this number has not been recognised”. The ill-fated couple are never to meet, both trapped inside the machine which itself is powered by the captives memories. Removing all that is human until there is nothing left of them.


Charlotte Agnes Roper

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