The Distant Machine

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The letter is dated the fourth of November. The ink is brown. It smells of damp wool and stale pipe tobacco. I am writing this from a hospital bed in Manchester. My hands are steady. My heart is not. The machine broke on a Tuesday. It was a small thing. A gear slipped. A belt snapped. The noise it made was a shriek, like a child seeing a snake. Then silence. The room was quiet. The air was...

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