The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The rust was thick as blood on the iron hinges. Elias Thorne pulled, his boots sliding in the wet gravel, his shoulder digging into the cold metal. The gate did not yield. Behind him, the house of his dead father loomed, a skeletal thing of black stone and broken glass, breathing out the damp chill of the November morning. He was forty-two, a mason with hands like cured leather, but the gate...

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