The Distant Machine

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NOTICE: Water Ration Chit 44-B. Hours: 0600-0615. Do not queue early. I woke with the taste of iron in my mouth, the dream of the grinding machine still humming in my teeth, and saw Elara pressing a cloth to her lips, the red stain spreading like ink in the stagnant water of the quarry lake outside our window. I am Babatunde Asante, thirty-two, a teacher of recycled paper in the flats, and I...

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