The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

The glass was cold. It bit into my palm. I looked down at the necklace, the one Eleanor had worn every day for twenty years. The pendant was a single, perfect teardrop of pale quartz. It had never broken. Not once. Not when we danced in the rain. Not when the roof caved in. Not when the hunger took our children. It was whole. It was unchanging. And it was mine now. I held it up to the light....

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