The Pale Tale
The fog rolled in from the harbor every evening. It swallowed the iron railings and the gas lamps. It ate the world whole. I was nine. I lived in a house that leaned against the cliff. The walls were thick stone. They held the cold out. They held the dark in. My father was a clockmaker. He sat at his bench. He worked with tweezers. He worked with oil. The smell of metal and lye hung in the air....
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