The Distant Machine
The ink on the tip of my fountain pen had dried into a rust-colored crust, and I spent the first ten minutes of the evening trying to scrape it away with a knife before I could set down a single figure. The coal fire in the corner was dying, the embers glowing a dull, sullen orange that cast long, distorted shadows against the wallpaper, and it was in that low, throbbing heat that the owl began...
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