The Pale Circus

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The Pale Circus

The dream was red. Not the bright, cheerful red of a cardinal, but the dull, bruised crimson of old blood drying on a sheet. It filled the sky. It pooled in the gutters of the soot-blackened Victorian row house. Thomas woke. He was ten. His breath hitched in his throat, a small, sharp bird trapped in bone. The room smelled of lavender and damp wool. Rain hammered the windowpane. A rhythmic,...

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