The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

The smell of rot was in the walls, in the floorboards, and in the marrow of Arthur Vane’s bones. It was November, 1912, and the London air pressed against the single pane of glass in his mother’s bedroom window, cold and wet. Arthur stood by the bedside, his hands trembling as he adjusted the damp cloth on her forehead. She was dying, her skin translucent as parchment, her breath a rattle that...

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