The Pale Tale

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The Pale Tale

The rust came off in flakes the color of dried blood, curling away under the rough edge of the whetstone I had smuggled from the kitchen three weeks prior. My hands were raw, the skin split and weeping, but the iron beneath grew smooth, then cold, then bright as a sliver of moonlight in the dark of my cell. I was thirty-two years old, and I had been a clerk in Warden Halloway’s office for four...

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