The Wistful Mountain

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I held the brass escapement in my palm, the metal cold and slick with the condensation of the cellar, turning it over and over until the edges bit into my skin, a small, sharp pain that grounded me in the present moment where the air was thick with the smell of oil and decay. It was the autumn of 1893, and I, Elias Thorne, a clockmaker of forty years who had spent the last decade polishing the...

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