The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The dream was always the same. A frozen marsh, white as bone, and a heron standing in the center of the ice, its neck rigid, its eye black and unblinking. Elias woke with his heart hammering against his ribs, the cold of the dream still clinging to his skin. He was forty-two, a clerk of little consequence in the vast, decaying estate of Mr. Vane, and for three years, since Clara’s death, this...

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