The Pale Protocol

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The Pale Protocol

March 12. I counted the hours on the shift board. Forty-eight. Two days of silence in the border town of Harlan. The air in the station smells of wet wool and old coffee. I am thirty-two. I am a sergeant. I have been waiting for a name for three years. The file on my desk is thin. It holds the evidence that my brother, Elias, died in a ditch three miles from here. I read the report last night....

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