Flare of the Phantom Factory

In 1953, a Midwestern newsman and a weary scientist probe an abandoned steel plant after a solar flare batters radio and leaves a radium-green haze. Locals whisper of ghostly shift whistles and men who never left their machines. As day-glow residue reanimates rusting presses, the investigators uncover a grim possibility: the flare fused human memory to iron, creating spectral laborers that mutate with each spark. A cautionary, Cold War fable of science and conscience—where the sun’s bite awakens both specter and sin.