The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

The dust in the cellar did not settle; it hung, a suspended gray fog that tasted of iron and old rain. I wiped my forehead with a forearm that had been bleeding since the first hour of the night, the blood mixing with the grit until my skin looked like cracked earth. The bank had given me until dawn to sign the foreclosure papers, or they would seize the estate, sell the masonry stone by stone,...

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