The Distant Machine
The letter arrived on a Tuesday, smelling of damp earth and old iron. You held it by the edges, as one holds a live wire, or a dead thing. The paper was heavy, cream-colored, stained at the corners with the brown tide of time. You were in the study, the room where the air always tasted of dust and decay, surrounded by the spines of books that no one had opened in a century. Outside, the rain...
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