“It’s over there.” Her hand shook when she pointed. “I’m not touching it.”
“Only fifty dollars?”
“Yes. Take it. I don’t want that thing in my house.”
*
He contemplated selling the tablet computer online. The hardware sold for ten times that on its own and the story behind this one would push the price way up.
It had to be one of the last units out of the Chinese plant -- before public backlash over the working conditions there forced the company to switch its manufacturing to some unknown Brazilian concern.
He opened the box and underneath the tablet sat the neatly placed human finger. Some workers killed themselves from the stress of the plant. This guy just gave up a finger.
He switched it on and the background image was a smiling family. Then a hand missing a finger reached up from the screen and grabbed his face.
