The Pale Mist

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The Pale Mist

The ink is smearing on the page, the letters bleeding into one another like the bruises on my father’s face, and I am trying to remember why I am holding this pen, why my hand is trembling, why the smell of damp rot and old paper is so thick in my throat that I can taste the decay on my tongue. October 14, 1924. I am nineteen years old, and I am the junior archivist at Halloway Estate, a title...

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