The Faded Masquerade

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The shuttle snapped against the heddle, sending a spray of wet, grey cotton across the loom, and I did not flinch, for my hands were already moving to clear the jam, the rhythm of the machine a second heartbeat that I had learned to match before I learned to speak English. The air in the mill was thick with the dust of flax and the sweat of men who had forgotten their own names in the heat, and...

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