The Distant Nightmare

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The clock stood in the center of the workshop, a monument to silence. Its case was oak, darkened by decades of my hands, the wood grain worn smooth in the specific places where fingers naturally sought purchase. The pendulum hung still. The mechanism was dead. I had not wound it in three days. I had not wound it in three months. My name is Arthur Vane. I am a horologist. I fix time. Or rather,...

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