The Pale Verdict
The rain had not stopped for three days, a persistent, gray weeping that turned the gravel path of the St. Jude’s Orphanage into a river of mud and sludge. I stood at the iron gate, my fingers white-knuckled around the handle, watching the steam rise from the vents of the old boiler house, a ghostly column in the cold morning air. Inside, the building loomed, a heavy, brick beast of the...
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