The Distant Machine
The letter was dated the fourteenth of October, though the year had been scraped away by time. It lay on the kitchen table, yellowed and soft as dried skin. You were seven. I remember the smell of the house. It smelled of damp wool and the bitter bite of woodsmoke. The windows were frosted on the inside, a lattice of ice that blurred the world outside into a white smear. You stood by the...
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