The Pale Letter
Chapter One In the Northern Sector, rain was not water but a debt, collected from the sky in acid droplets that ate the paint off the watchtowers. Stanislaw Olszewski stood in the mud of the border, thirty-four years old and hollowed out by the cold, his fingers wrapped around a letter that burned against his palm with a heat that had nothing to do with the temperature. It was a pale thing,...
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