The Distant Machine

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The light in the cell had turned the color of old blood, a deep, settling amber that clung to the dust motes hanging in the still air of the ancient citadel of Khorat, and Waqar Yousafzai, thirty-two years old and worn down to the bone by the weight of his own poverty, sat on the cold stone floor with the torn hem of his wife’s ceremonial shawl spread across his knees, the indigo dye already...

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