The Pale Tale

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The Pale Tale

The sub-basement smelled of wet limestone and old paper. I held the ledger, its spine cracked, the pages warped by a leak that had been fixed three years too late. My name was on page forty. The charge was embezzlement. The year was 1998. I was thirty-one. I was the junior clerk who signed the transfer orders. I was the one they pointed at when the numbers didn’t balance. Director Halloway’s...

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