The Distant Threshold
The screwdriver bit slipped, and I caught the brass gear before it could fall into the dust. My hands were steady. They had to be. I was forty-five years old, a master horologist, and I had driven six hours in the rain to Oakhaven to fix a clock that the Municipal Authority claimed was merely "out of calibration." The smell hit me first as I stepped off the carriage: wet wool, ozone, and...
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