The Distant Machine
The first letter arrived on a Tuesday, wrapped in brown paper that smelled of damp earth and old ink, though the envelope was pristine white and bore no stamp. It was a small, rectangular object, no larger than a playing card, made of a material that felt like cold glass but yielded slightly under the thumb, warm as a stone kept in a pocket. It was food, of a sort, or perhaps medicine; it was...
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