The Distant Machine

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The wrench slipped from my grip and clattered against the rusted pipe, the sound sharp and final in the silence of the basement. I am writing to you, Martha, because I cannot look at your face, or rather, I cannot look at the face of the woman who was my wife, who left three days after we buried Eli, and I find that I have no words for her, only for you. I am forty-two years old, a deputy...

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