The Pale Letter
The banquet hall smelled of yeast and old wool. It was the annual convention of the Regional Medical Ethics Board. The air was thick, heavy with the humidity of three hundred bodies pressed into a rented hotel ballroom. Thomas sat at the head of the long table. He wore a suit that was too tight across the shoulders. The fabric stretched, pulling at the seams, a constant, low-grade tension. He...
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