Escape from the Female Factory
A Choose Your Own Adventure-style bonus to Silver and Stone
This is a Choose Your Own Adventure-style story with nineteen possible endings (most of which are gruesome deaths). You’re welcome to backtrack as much as you like.
Each day feels the same: wake up and march around the mulberry tree in the yard. That is our exercise. Weave cloth, grease machines, stoke fires, haul rocks. That is our work. Eat hardtack with weevils or flick them away. That is our meal. Then more work. Then night falls, and we sleep. Then day breaks, and we begin again.
Each day is one day less that we will spend as inmates of this workhouse of a prison.
‘Tell me again about Patrick,’ says Fei Fei, rubbing her thin hands together as her breath whitens the air.
Our guards huddle i
