The Pale Path

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The Pale Path

The ink in the well was thick and cold, smelling of iron and old paper, and I was grinding the nib against the glass rim, feeling the rough grit bite into the tip until the point was sharp enough to scratch the skin of a man, because a petition for the posthumous commendation of a dead brother requires a hand that does not shake, and mine was shaking. It was the autumn of 1912, and the damp of...

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