The Distant Machine
The wind is wrong tonight. It is still, yet the great oak leaves on the mill’s tower creak as if struck by a heavy hand, and the blades, which have been rusted into a fixed diagonal for three years, have shifted two degrees. I write this in the blue light of the kitchen lamp, my hands trembling not from the cold, but from the shock of hearing my own name spoken by the wind. It was Margaret’s...
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