The Distant Machine

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October 12, 1911 Father, the ink is dry and my hand is steady, but the town is not. I am thirty-two years old, a constable in Oakhaven, and I am writing to you from the breakroom of the textile mill because the company office is closed and the foreman, Mr. Grieve, is refusing to sign my affidavit. He stands by the window, his back to me, watching the smoke rise from the stacks. He says my...

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