The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The brass key was cold in Elias’s palm, its teeth worn smooth by twenty years of turning locks that held no secrets, only dust. He stood on the porch of the house on Elm Street, the wood groaning under the weight of his suitcase and the damp October air, while the gray city of Oakhaven settled around him like a woolen shroud. He had come to perform the final rite for his father, a dying man who...

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