The Distant Machine

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The ink on the parchment was still wet, a dark, bleeding vein against the pale vellum, when Thomas Ashworth realized that the letters had changed. He sat in the high-backed chair by the hearth, the fire dying to a bed of grey embers, and watched the words he had written earlier that afternoon. He had been dictating to no one, his quill scratching a rhythmic, frantic pattern as he attempted to...

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