The Distant Machine
The letter arrived on a Tuesday, the paper heavy and damp, smelling faintly of the wet wool coats that hung in the hallway. I held it in my left hand, the one that still trembled when the barometric pressure dropped, while my right hand rested on the arm of the leather chair, a chair that had begun to sag in the center, just as I had begun to sag in the years following the war. The envelope was...
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