The Pale Bridge

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The Pale Bridge

The gate was locked. It had been locked for forty years, or perhaps it was only since the rain started to taste of iron, but the lock was a fact, heavy and cold against my palm. I am a man who has spent his life pulling things open. Barrels, hatches, the doors of interrogation rooms that smelled of stale tobacco and fear. I know the weight of a latch. I know the sound a hinge makes when it is...

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