The Distant Machine
1884. The ledger was open, the ink wet. You asked me, Thomas, if I had seen the light. I told you no, for I was afraid. I was afraid of what the light would show the Committee. We sat in the back room of the textile mill, the air thick with the smell of machine oil and the damp wool of your coat. The gears above us groaned, a constant, rhythmic thrum that seemed to vibrate in the marrow of my...
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