The Pale Tale

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The Pale Tale

The hammer bit into the anvil with a sound like a bone breaking, and I felt the vibration travel up my arms, settling in the marrow of my wrists with a dull, satisfying ache. I was twelve, and I was angry, not at the cold iron or the biting wind that whistled through the gaps in the barn’s shingles, but at the slow, grinding decay that was eating my father alive. He lay in the house, his chest...

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