The Pale Echo

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The Pale Echo

The rain did not fall so much as it hung, a grey, suspended curtain over the courtyard of St. Jude’s Correctional Facility. I stood by the window of my cell, watching the water bead on the glass, distorting the world into a smear of concrete and wet iron. Inside, the air smelled of mildew and old paper. It was a smell I had come to associate with waiting. I was not a man who waited well. I was...

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