The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The white lily was cold, its petals stiff with a dew that smelled of wet cardboard and old pennies. Arthur held it between his thumb and forefinger, the stem pricked into the skin, turning it over as if checking for a stamp. It was the second one he had found that morning, tucked behind a stack of water-damaged encyclopedias in the attic of his father’s estate, a place he had sworn to empty...

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