The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The town of Oakhaven did not smell of pine or rain, as the postcards claimed, but of yeast and rot. It was a place where the air hung thick with the promise of fermentation, where every cellar was a womb and every oven a mouth. In the center of this sprawling, humid community stood the bakery of Elias Thorne, a man whose reputation was as brittle as the rye he baked. For generations, the women...

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