The Distant Wound

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The Distant Wound

The press hissed. It was a long, wet sound, like a snake striking from the reeds. Arthur Vane wiped his hands on his apron. The leather was stiff. The air smelled of sulfur and old iron. He was the chief operator at the Meridian Textile Mill. It was 1904. The machines did not sleep. They ate. They chewed. They exhaled steam that fogged the windows. Outside, the sky was the color of bruised...

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