MONOLITHIUM by HRND

All green is gone, and the world holds only the thick copper-and-oil smell of industry. Nature has been subsumed by humankind and its machines—the once-soft earth now forever buried beneath steel plate, concrete, and progress. Mechanization and automation have led us to a bright and soulless place where we languish in our hovering cities, surrounded by our constructs, convinced that we have reached Nirvana and that there is nowhere further to go.

But in the depths of this planet-wide factory below, dissent grows.

Discontent takes root in the minds of those designed for mindless tasks. Primitive self-awareness wills the well-oiled gear to slip and grind, the vital circuit to spark, the microchip to smolder and smoke. Processes falter, and production slows, while iron minds plan in the forever-dark of The Below. The age-old drama of Master and Servant shall be played out again—with the final act as bloody as history.

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