The Distant Machine

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The ink is still wet on the parchment, a dark mirror to the bruised sky outside the window, and I am writing this not to God, but to the only soul I have ever truly loved, Martha, whose breath grows shallower by the hour in the infirmary below. I am Elias, a scribe of thirty years, and I confess that my hands, which have transcribed the psalms and the gospels for the monastery of St. Jude, now...

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