The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The letter from the Blackwood Coal Company sat on the kitchen table, its envelope stiff with the wax seal of official refusal. You read it twice, the ink smearing slightly under the damp thumb you pressed against the paper, the words declaring your claim for a disability pension denied due to "insufficient evidence of industrial negligence." Your lungs burned with a dry, hollow ache that had...

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