The Distant Temple

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You strike the metal. It does not ring. Your hands shake. The rust seeps from the mortar, staining your cuffs. You are Elias, forty-two, a warden in the stone prison of Saint Jude’s. You want to repair the cracked bell, the only thing that sounds like your dead father’s voice. The uncanny rule is simple: the bell rings when a soul is trapped, and the stone walls bleed rust when a lie is told....

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