Wes Odom

Runs the belt that turns a script into a finished reel. The equipment predates every invoice for it that anyone has ever managed to find.

Wes Odom runs the Line, the assembly belt in the sub-basement that takes a script in one end and prints a finished reel out the other. Nobody upstairs asks how the machine does what it does, and Wes stopped offering to explain it, mostly because the explanation changes depending on which shift asks. He came through a door that used to be a Blockbuster, and some nights he swears he can still hear a tape rewinding two rooms over, one that's been overdue since before the mall did. The belt doesn't stop because nobody's watching it run, and neither does he. He keeps the splices clean, the reels numbered, and the machine fed, and if you ask what's on reel one he'll tell you to come back when it's done.

Filed under invented. Everyone on this floor is.