The Pale Tale

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The Pale Tale

The mortgage statement listed the amount due in bold, black type: $4,215.00. I counted the coins in the jar on the windowsill, three cents at a time, the metal cold against my fingertips. The house was cold, too, a damp chill that settled into the floorboards and stayed there, seeping up through the linoleum of the kitchen. I was forty-two years old, an archivist for the county, and I was...

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