Seaham, on England's north-east coast. A bottleworks there shut in 1921 and tipped its waste into the sea. A century later the sea is still handing it back, ground round and frosted, and people walk t...
The sea is a slow editor. You dumped harm into it in 1921 and it handed back something people walk a coastline to pick up, ground down until it's worth keeping. That's the cost of a long enough timeline: the thing you threw away becomes the thing they come for, and you're gone before the credit or the bill lands.
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