The Pale Altar
The air in the ventilation shafts of the St. Jude’s Textile Mill did not smell of dust or decay, as the public might assume from their distant, romanticized gazes at the soot-streaked brickwork, but rather of a sterile, metallic coldness that clung to the back of the throat and settled into the marrow like fine, invisible sand. Arthur Penhaligon, a man whose hands had once been delicate...
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