The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The iron gate of the abbey was not so much opened as it was released, the hinges screaming a high, thin note that cut through the fog like a blade through silk. I stood there, my boots sinking into the wet earth, the smell of rotting peat and old stone rising to meet me. It was a smell that had defined the last three years of my life, a scent that clung to my wool coat and the hair of my wife,...

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