The Distant Summer

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The brass gears on the workbench weighed four ounces, three grains, and a stubbornness that Elias Thorne had spent forty years trying to grind out of his own bones. He held the calipers against the escapement wheel, his breath shallow in the cold air of the workshop, counting the teeth with the mechanical precision that had kept him solvent through the lean winters of the last decade. It was...

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