The Distant Machine
Samira Amin’s hands were red to the wrist. The loom in the center of the room was a beast of wood and iron, its threads taut as the sinews of a hanged man. She had been at the wheel since the light in the medina had turned the color of bruised plums. The union men had come at noon, their boots clicking on the stone floor, demanding the mechanism be stripped for scrap by the winter solstice....
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