The Pale Exile
The iron gate of the Blackwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane was not merely a barrier of steel and stone; it was a mouth, wide and grinding, that swallowed the twilight whole. Thomas Whitmore stood before it, his hands bound not by rope but by the invisible, suffocating weight of his own history, a history that the city of New London had decided to erase. The air smelled of coal smoke and...
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