The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The banquet hall at St. Jude’s Asylum for the Insane smelled of boiled cabbage and old wax. You sat at the head of the table, a long oak slab that groaned under the weight of porcelain plates and trembling hands. It was your first week as the new night attendant, a position you had secured not through merit, but through a desperate, quiet need to be near the silence. The air was thick, heavy...

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