The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The white birches stood in a row, their bark peeling like scabbed skin, and Elias Thorne knew with a certainty that felt physical, a tightness in the chest, that if he turned his head, the trees would follow. He woke at four in the morning, the sheets damp with sweat, his lungs rattling with a wet, heavy cough that sounded like a drain backing up. He was forty-two, an actuary at Halloway &...

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