The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

The train rattled over the iron bridges, a shudder that traveled up through the wooden floor and into the bones of your legs. You were twelve years old, sitting in the corner of a third-class carriage that smelled of wet wool and coal dust. Your father, Arthur, sat across from you, his hands folded in his lap, his fingers white-knuckled around his own thumbs. He did not look at you. He looked...

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