The Pale Circus

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The Pale Circus

You count the coins again, three times, the copper heads cold and slick in your palm, each one a small, heavy refusal of the world you have built. There are forty-two shillings in the tin, enough for a week of bread and a bottle of gin, but not enough for the deed to the distillery that your father left you in pieces, a legacy of rotting oak and unpaid debts. The light in the room is the flat,...

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