The Pale Exile

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The Pale Exile

The rain in Harrowgate had a taste of rust and old copper, a flavor that clung to the back of my throat no matter how much I drank from the chipped ceramic mug on my desk. I was forty-two years old, and I had spent the last eighteen of those years in the sub-basement of the Meridian Trust, cataloging the paper ghosts of an industry that had choked the city’s lungs for a century. My job was...

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