The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The fog did not roll into Oakhaven; it seeped up from the iron grates of the steam vents, a grey, oily breath that tasted of coal and rot. Elias Thorne woke with the taste in his mouth, his heart hammering against ribs that felt too large for his chest. He was forty-two, though the mirror showed a man of sixty, his face a topography of deep lines carved by sleepless nights and bad whiskey. He...

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