The Distant Garden

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The ledger weighed three pounds, a solid block of cream paper bound in leather that had begun to crack along the spine. I had spent the morning counting the rivets on the eastern truss, marking each one with a small graphite dot, a ritual of precision that kept the noise in my chest at bay. My heart beat in a syncopated rhythm, a mechanical stutter that felt less like biology and more like a...

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