The Pale Verdict

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The Pale Verdict

The dream was always the same: a white picket fence, rigid and blinding against the grey sky, stretching across a field that did not exist. Arthur Penhaligon woke with the taste of chalk in his mouth, the year 1904 pressing down on his chest like a wet wool coat. He was thirty-two years old, a clerk of twelve years, and he had one desire that burned with the quiet ferocity of a coal in the...

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