The Distant Machine

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The ink in the quill has dried to a crust of black mud, but I press it to the parchment regardless, for the act of writing is the only tether keeping my mind from unraveling into the same grey rot that consumes my son. It is the fourteenth day of November, 1342, and the air in this cell smells of wet stone and the sweet, cloying decay of the plague. I am Thomas Bradshaw, Inquisitor of the...

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