The Distant Machine

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October 14 My hands are locking again. The knuckles swell by morning, stiff as oak in winter, and by noon the pain is a white noise that drowns out the wind. I am fifty-two years old. I have served the Border for twenty-two years. I know every rock, every shadow, every foot of this gray stretch of land. But I do not know how much longer I can hold a rifle. The Commandant says I am past my...

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