The Pale Mist
The steam from the locomotive’s boiler did not rise so much as it erupted, a thick, sulfurous curtain that swallowed the world whole, and we walked through it, my wife and I, hand in hand, our fingers interlaced so tightly that the knuckles turned the color of old bone, as if we were trying to fuse our very skeletons together to ensure that no wind, no force, no god, could ever pull us apart....
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