Shirley Jackson meets Black Mirror in this speculative fiction short story about the promise of technology and the dangers of not decentralizing it. Janie and her Mama work hard to grow crops and share their harvest with their neighbors, but when a strange man named Dr. Tom comes to town with a miraculous machine that can produce an infinite supply of food, it will seem like the days of hard work are over. What they and the townspeople don't know though is this machine isn't what it seems...