The Distant Machine

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Elias. The name was called by the Abbot, sharp and dry as a twig snapping under a boot, echoing off the cold stone walls of the scriptorium. I looked up from the parchment. My hand was still wet with ink, black and glossy, smelling of oak gall and iron. The ledger lay open before me, the parish accounts for the year 1432, a task that had consumed my autumn. I wanted to finish it by the...

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