The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The rain in 1893 did not wash the soot from Blackwood Manor; it merely turned the grime into a slick, black sludge that clung to the cobblestones of the courtyard. Elias Thorne stood under the eaves of the portico, his hands trembling not from the cold but from the terrible, humming weight of the shattered mainspring he held in his palm, the metal warm as a living vein against his skin. He was...

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