The Pale Tale

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The Pale Tale

The candle on the stone table flickered, its flame bending left, then right, as Brother Thomas adjusted the wick with a pair of iron tongs. He was sixty-two years old, his knuckles swollen with arthritis, and the air in the infirmary was thick with the cloying, sweet stench of rotting lilies. It was a smell that seemed to emanate not from the flowers in the vase, but from the body of his...

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