The Pale Bridge

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The Pale Bridge

The winter of 1912 had settled over the valley like a shroud of wet ash, and I sat at the desk in our small, damp cottage, the pen moving across the ledger page with a mechanical precision that felt less like accounting and more like a ritual of survival. I was thirty years old, a clerk for the Blackwood Mill, and my hands trembled not from the cold, though the frost had crept into the bones of...

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