The Pale Mist
The fog did not roll in. It seeped. It crept through the keyholes of the shop, a grey, viscous fluid that tasted of iron and old salt. I wiped the glass counter. My hands shook. Not from the cold. The cold here was a thing you wore, a coat of ice that never thawed. I shook from the weight of the silence. We had agreed to leave. "Thomas," I said. My voice sounded thin. Like paper held up to a...
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