The Distant Machine
The quill was cold in my hand, its nib split like a dry twig, and the smell of iron and old dust hung heavy in the scriptorium. I am Thomas Bradshaw, thirty-two years old, a scribe of the Abbey of St. Jude, and I have come to this place to pay a debt that was not mine to inherit but was fastened to my soul by the law of the stone. The Abbot, a man whose voice sounded like gravel shifting in a...
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