The Distant Machine

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The ink was still wet on the date. March 14th. The room smelled of dust and old paper. Elias sat at the desk. He was seventy years old. His hands shook. Not much. Just enough. A tremor in the index finger. The pen hovered. He looked at the window. Rain streaked the glass. London was grey. It was always grey. He thought of the desert. The heat. The silence. He was an engineer. Or he had been....

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