The Distant Machine

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The wool is thin. You know it by the scratch against your inner wrist. It is a fine, pale thing, a scarf that once held the weight of a winter’s promise. Now it is just friction. You hold it in your hands as you sit on the edge of the bed in the small room above the bakery. The air smells of yeast and cold brick. Outside, the town of Harrowgate sleeps under a blanket of snow that does not melt....

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