The Pale Letter
The banquet hall of St. Jude’s Asylum for the Incurable was not a place of celebration, but a cathedral of silence draped in heavy velvet, where the air hung thick with the scent of beeswax and decaying lilies. Thomas Bradshaw sat at the head of the long mahogany table, his hands folded tightly in his lap, the knuckles white as bone. He was a man composed of sharp angles and suppressed tremors,...
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