The Distant Machine

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The ink on the nib of my pen was drying, a black crust that cracked when I pressed it to the paper, and I watched the flakes fall into the ash tray like dead skin. It is October the fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and the wind outside my cottage in Glen Moray is stripping the last brown leaves from the rowan tree, a sound like dry bones rattling in a sack. I am writing...

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