The Golden Visit
The clock tower in the old textile mill did not tick. It groaned. I loved the groan. I loved the way the iron gears, rusted brown and thick as old bones, ground against each other in the dark. I was the keeper. That was my title. No one else cared for the mechanism. I lived in the room above the mainspring. I ate there. I slept there. I breathed the dust of it. The mill was closed. The workers...
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