The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

I held the spool of thread in my left hand, the cotton wound so tight it felt like a bone, while the cold air from the loom bit into the knuckles of my right. It was a Tuesday in November, 1912, and the light in the weaving shed was the color of weak tea, filtering through grime-caked windows that hadn’t been cleaned since the war in the Balkans broke out. I am Elias Thorne, twenty-four years...

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