The Distant Machine

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The iron is red-hot and it burns the night out of the sky. You are not the blacksmith. You are the bellows. You are the breath that forces the air into the furnace, and the furnace is your own lungs, expanding, contracting, a rhythmic heaving that has no beginning and no end. The sparks fly like embers from a dying hearth, scattering across the cobblestones of Oakhaven, a town that smells of...

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