The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The brass fastener of the envelope was cold against my thumb, a small, hard disc that felt like a coin dropped into a well. I held it in my left hand while my right finger traced the spine of the ledger, the leather worn smooth and soft from twenty years of handling, the paper inside brittle and yellowed. It was November, the third week, and the heating in the Ministry of Records had already...

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