The Pale Bridge

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The Pale Bridge

The light in the scriptorium had thinned to the color of old tea, and I had counted the hours since the first bell, twenty-four in total, though my hands had not stopped moving. I was Elias, forty-two years of age, a scribe of the Abbey of St. Jude, and I needed only one more psalm completed before the winter solstice to secure the pension that would allow me to leave this stone cage. The...

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