The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The dream was of snow. Not the dry, brittle flakes of November, but the heavy, wet kind that sticks to wool and soaks into bone. Elias woke with the taste of iron in his mouth. He lay still in the narrow cot, staring at the water-stained ceiling of the shelter. Outside, the wind howled through the skeletal pines of the Appalachian foothills. It was a sound that had become his only companion. He...

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