The Pale Bridge

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The Pale Bridge

The ink on my hands did not wash off, not with the cold, bracing water of the municipal tap, nor with the lye soap that Margaret Holloway kept in a chipped ceramic bowl by the sink, nor with the desperate, frantic scrubbing that left my palms raw and weeping red, for the symbols were not a stain but a brand, a living script etched into the very grain of my skin, pulsing with a faint, violet...

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