The Distant Machine
The ink had barely dried on the final ledger entry when the silence in the counting house became a physical weight, pressing against the eardrums like deep water. Elias Thorne sat behind the oak desk, the surface polished by generations of hands that had now long since returned to the earth, and stared at the brass scales that balanced the day’s yield of raw cotton. Outside, the rain lashed the...
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