The Distant Machine
14 November 1893 The train cut through the fog like a knife through wet cloth. I sat in the corner of the third-class carriage, my knees drawn up, the heavy wool coat pulled tight around my neck. The coat was black. It had been my father’s. It was the only thing I had kept. The rest of the house had sold, the library dispersed, the name erased from the ledger of respectable society. I was...
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