The Pale Garden
Act I "Asset Valuation: St. Jude’s Institute. Final Audit. Authorized: B. Bagheri." The ink on the ledger line was still wet, smelling of iron and rot, as I signed my name at one hundred and nine of Corvid Lane, the address scrawled in the margin by the postman who read postcards for a living. I was thirty-four, an ex-banker now working the pawn counter, and I needed the money from this audit...
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