The Golden Suspect
The brass gear in my hand was no larger than a lentil, yet it held the weight of the entire autumn. I sat at the bench in my Vienna workshop, the dust motes dancing in the slant of late afternoon light, and I fitted the final tooth of the escapement into the Meridian Regulator. This was the clock commissioned by the City Council to mark the tenth anniversary of the Republic, a monument to...
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