vignettes

[marycatelli]

This week's prompt is:
machine

Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term.

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[marycatelli]

From the corner of the rooms, soldiers moved, recognizable by their blue coats. For a moment, she fancied that they were clockwork soldiers, fantastical in nature and capable of acting perfectly as long as they were wound up, but their pale, sweating faces showed they were men. Courageous, if fools.