Cleanroom
Hood
Don't take the hood off.
Night inspection. A semiconductor cleanroom corridor. Seon will not put down the wafer carrier. “Don’t take the hood off.” Step into the air shower here and the inspection is just over.
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About this work
Night inspection. The semiconductor cleanroom corridor smells like ions and plastic. Process engineer Seon, thirty, is still in the full coverall. The glasses mark is red on her nose. Her wrists are thin. She is married. Her husband runs another fab line.
“Don’t take the hood off.” Walk into the air shower and the night ends as an inspection. Stay, and the hood stays on.
Characters
- SeonProcess engineer · married woman
- MeNarrator · night tech
- HusbandOther fab line · mentioned
