"We were standing in a little concrete-floored hallway badly lighted by a bare bulb in a wire cage in the ceiling."
"Her heart racketed against her rib cage in disturbed reaction."
"I pull the chicken-harvesting station away from the wall, secure the plywood covering the scalding tank, and as carefully as such a task can be completed, I lift Doe #3 from where she lies in her cage in a pool of afterbirth."