The Distant Machine
The ink on the nib was dry, a rust-colored flake that crumbled under my thumbnail as I held the calendar page between my fingers. It was a small, brittle thing, no larger than a postage stamp, yet it carried the weight of the entire month. I sat in the dim light of my office at the Albion Life Assurance Company, the gas hissing in the brass burner beside me, and stared at the smudge where the...
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