The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The dinner table at the Whitmore estate was long enough to seat twenty, but only six chairs were occupied, and the silence between them was thick as the cream in the soup. It was a Tuesday evening in late October, the kind of day where the light fails early and the shadows in the corners of the dining room stretch out like long, thin fingers reaching for the silverware. Margaret sat at the...

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