The Pale Path
The winter inventory came to four hundred and twelve days until retirement, a number Elias counted not in years but in the specific, grinding wear of his knees and the thinning of his hair. He had twenty-two years of service in the ledger, a clean record that promised a pension sufficient to buy a small house with a porch where the light would hit the floorboards at a predictable angle. That...
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