The Distant Machine
The wind off the lake had a taste to it. Salt and rust. It sat on my tongue like a copper penny I had forgotten to spit out. I sat on the porch step, the wood cold through my trousers, and watched the mist roll in from the water. It swallowed the far shore first. Then the trees. Then the road. By the time it reached the house, the world was just the gray wall of fog and the black square of my...
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