The Pale Altar
The envelope was thick, heavy with the kind of official weight that feels like a leaden hand pressing against the chest, and I sat at the kitchen table in the brownstone, the November cold seeping through the floorboards into the soles of my shoes, staring at the seal of the City Assessment Office as if it were a verdict I had already accepted but was too proud to sign. The letter inside, dated...
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