The Distant Machine
The brass astrolabe sat on the center of the mahogany desk, its gears clicking with a rhythm that did not match the clock on the wall, and I have spent the last three nights listening to that sound until it became the only thing I could hear. I am writing this by the light of a single tallow candle because the gas lamps in the archive room have been cut by the administration to save on the...
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