The Distant Machine

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Hamza Khan wrote the first line of his confession to the King on the back of a rice bill, the ink still wet when the door of the tailor’s shop swung open. I was thirty-two, and I had a bride-price in arrears that weighed more than the scales on the counter, weights short by three grams, a deficit I could not balance with loyalty. The fog had stopped the boats for two days, and the only sound in...

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