The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The dream is always the same: a garden of pale, withered things, frozen in a mist that smells of iron and old rain. You wake with the scent on your tongue, your heart hammering against your ribs like a trapped bird. It is November, 1893. You are thirty-four years old, a constable in the county of Ashworth, and you have not slept a full night in three months. Your want is simple, concrete, and...

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