The Pale Path

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The Pale Path

The water in the cellar of the Thorne house did not behave like water. It sat still, a perfect, black mirror reflecting the bare bulb hanging from the joists, and it did not drop despite the submersible pump roaring its mechanical heart out against the stone walls. Elias Thorne, fifty-two and trembling, stood knee-deep in the freezing dark, his hydrologist’s hands useless against the liquid’s...

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