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The Debt of the Ash

a sharp, 100% black and white photograph featuring the cluttered composing stone, the photo of Uncle Frank with the Kenosha Machine & Tool patch, and the ethereal natural world visible through the open doorway.
  • THE DIRTY ASH

The Debt 1: The Dead Letter Drop at St. Jude

Jack Hammer4 days ago20 hours ago010 mins mins
This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series The Debt of the Ash

The linotype doesn’t give a damn about your theories. You drop the brass matrices down the magazine chutes, you step…

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Noir. Black and white. A 2 panel image. In the left panel, a noir detective is breaking the padlock off of an iron door in a dim dirty alleyway with a hammer and chisel. In the right panel, the detective is in a large stone basement. An old engineer denim overalls and a flannel shirt, stands at the open door of an un-fired boiler that is the size of a fright car. The detective has his hand on an old, tattered, thick, ledger book that sits on a small table.
  • THE DIRTY ASH

The Debt 2: The Second Basement Beneath the Ash

Jack Hammer1 day ago20 hours ago012 mins mins
This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series The Debt of the Ash

The smell of molten antimony and cheap lead is an honest smell. It doesn’t put on airs, and it doesn’t…

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Basement arched brick corridor crisscrossed with heavy copper busbars as thick as a man’s wrist that stretches fifty yards into the sub-stratum with rows of gray steel filing cabinets that stand seven feet high, their drawer faces stamped with dates from nineteen-seventy-eight to nineteen-eighty-four.
  • THE DIRTY ASH

The Debt 3: The Second Basement Beneath Foundry Lane

Jack Hammer1 day ago20 hours ago012 mins mins
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series The Debt of the Ash

A man who spends forty cycles staring down the barrel of a Linotype gets an ear for metal. You can…

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Noir. Black and white. Factory men with timecards standing along the wall of a boiler room in groups of three and four near a time clock as a detective spreads open a newspaper on a rusted steel table.
  • THE DIRTY ASH

The Debt 4: The Shift Whistle on Foundry Lane

Jack Hammer1 day ago20 hours ago010 mins mins
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series The Debt of the Ash

A dead linotype slug has no conscience, but it carries a debt. The Shift Whistle blew as the plunger dropped…

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Noir. Black and white. A publisher operates and old fashion linotype news paper print shop.
  • THE DIRTY ASH

The Debt 5: Disposition on Cold Iron Pig

Jack Hammer19 hours ago19 hours ago04 mins mins
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series The Debt of the Ash

The newsies had quit barking at five bells, leaving St. Jude Avenue to the dry scrape of dead newsprint tumbling…

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