The Distant Machine

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The weight of it was wrong, a cold stone in the pocket of her coat, and Amparo Escobedo knew before she opened the envelope that the magistrate had finally let go. She had stood in the square of San Miguel, the air tasting of coal dust and the wet, diesel-thaw of the riverbank, waiting for a man who feared what he did not understand. Don Rafael, the local magistrate, had sat behind his desk,...

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