The Alpha-Dye Shirt Factory: After Dinner Conversation, #7
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Synopsis: A fire breaks out at the garment factory and one worker has to make a life or death choice.
After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
Podcast discussions of this short story, and others, is available. Simply search "After Dinner Conversation."
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The Alpha-Dye Shirt Factory - Tyler W. Kurt
The Alpha-Dye Shirt Factory
After Dinner Conversation Series
I DON’T KNOW WHERE HOW I should start my story: with the fire, with the things leading up to the fire, or how I made my escape.
Well, my name’s Mary and I worked at the Alpha-Dye Shirt Factory, a seven-story building in the middle of the sugar district falling apart in every which a-way. It’s a brick building, red brick, not that you’d know it on account it’s been whitewashed over, except for the fire escape, which was painted black about a hundred times to hide the rust, and more paint than fire escape. The building had just the one elevator so most of the ladies would take the fire escape if they was on one of the lower floors, but I never did that, on account of I didn’t trust it as old as it was, and mostly rusted, like I said.
I should mention the smell, too. You never smelled nothing like it. The factory