The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The bread was hard. It was always hard. Thomas stood before the great hearth, the iron hook in his hand slick with sweat. The loaf sat on the stone slab, dark and dense, smelling of smoke and stale yeast. He had been baking for forty years. Forty years of flour dust in his lungs, of fire in his veins. He was a baker. That was all he was. The bell above the door chimed. It was a bright, sharp...

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