The Distant Machine

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Chapter One The fog off the harbor had turned the air into a wet wool, clinging to the skin of the shophouses. Kalsom binte Mohamed sat in the infirmary of the Palace of the Winds, a place that smelled of camphor and old paper, writing a petition for her brother’s life, or rather, the record of his death. It was the first day of the new year, and the court was closed, but the machinery of...

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