The Pale Verdict

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The Pale Verdict

The pen is in your hand. It is a cheap ballpoint, blue ink, the kind they buy by the box for the clerks in the basement. You are Elias Thorne, forty-two, a federal inspector. You want to clear the final audit of the Blackwood Asylum before your mandatory retirement in three days. The opposing force is your heart, which pounds against your ribs like a trapped bird. You sit at the head of a long...

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