The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The pneumatic tubes hummed a note that only the bereaved could hear, a low, mournful drone that vibrated in the teeth of those who had lost a spouse. Yasaman Yousefi, a bonded scribe of thirty-four years, pressed her ear against the cold iron of the archive’s central shaft, her fingers tracing the frayed edge of a river map painted on hide, a document she had been tasked to catalog for the...

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