The Pale Letter

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The Pale Letter

The ink in my quill was not black, but a deep, arterial red that smelled of iron and wet earth. I woke with the taste of copper on my tongue, the parchment of my dreams still clinging to my eyelids, where my mother’s face had been written in a script that shifted and writhed like living worms. I am Elias Thorne, thirty years old, and the scribe for the town of Oakhaven, a place where the winter...

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