The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The iron bowl sat on the mantelpiece. It was not a beautiful thing. It was black, pitted, and cold to the touch. I had brought it back from the old house, the one in the valley where the air tasted of rust and wet stone. My father had kept it there for forty years. He said it was for salt. I knew it was for something else. We did not speak of the else. We spoke of the weather, of the price of...

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