The Pale Altar
The banquet hall of the St. Jude’s Correctional Industrial Complex smelled of roasted turkey and stale fear, a cloying mixture that clung to the wool of the staff uniforms and settled in the back of the throat like a dry cough. It was the annual Harvest Gala, a tradition so entrenched in the institution’s rotting bones that even the newly appointed Warden, a man named Mr. Silas Thorne whose...
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