The Pale Mist

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The Pale Mist

The fog was not white; it was the color of old milk, thick and sweet-smelling, clinging to the windowpanes of the delivery room like a living membrane. You stood over Martha Bradshaw, your hands slick with sweat and the copper tang of blood, the midwife’s kit open on the table before you, its instruments gleaming under the single kerosene lamp that sputtered in the damp air. Outside, the valley...

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