Bleed the Vine
Ilse was fired from the refinery for refusing to sign a yield report that lied. Three weeks later she breaks back in through a side door on her own dead badge to photograph the real number — and the only console at her height is bolted to the bed of a naked, sedated man wired into the harvest machine. Caught mid-act by the woman who fired her, Ilse makes the choice that keeps her on the floor: she keeps going.





















