The Pale Mist

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The Pale Mist

The rain had stopped, but the air in the square of St. Jude’s still hung heavy, thick with the scent of wet wool and rotting turnips. Thomas Bradshaw stood before the Bishop’s gate, his hands trembling not from the cold, but from the weight of the leather-bound ledger in his satchel. He was forty years old, a scribe for the parish, and for three months he had counted the dead. Not with prayer,...

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