The Distant Machine
November 14, 1912 Clara, I write this by the light of a tallow candle that has burned down to a stub, the wax pooling around my hands which are no longer entirely my own. The wind off the Blackwood Ridge does not howl so much as it grinds, a sound like iron teeth chewing on stone, and it is this grinding that I have come to associate with the marker. I hold it in my left hand, wrapped in a...
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