The Pale Garden
The apple core was slick with a juice that smelled of wet chalk and old pennies. Arthur Vane held it over the porcelain basin, watching the liquid drip in thin, pale threads onto the cracked tile floor of the bathroom in Blackwood Manor. He was forty years old, a man who had stitched up the torn lungs of miners and set the shattered wrists of farmers, but his hands trembled now with a palsy...
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