The Distant Machine
The letter arrived on a Tuesday, the day the winter rain had finally stopped and left the courtyard of St. Jude’s Asylum for the Insane and the Indigent smelling of wet chalk and old iron, a scent that clung to the wool of Brother Thomas’s habit like a ghost that refused to be exorcised. He was not a man of high station, nor of great learning, merely a scribe who had taken the vows because his...
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