The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

Joao Jorge wiped the mud from his boots, the leather stiff with the damp of the Alentejo fields, and stepped over the threshold into the shop that never quite opened. The air inside smelled of dry cork dust and old paper, a scent that clung to the back of the throat like a bad cough. He was thirty-two, and his hands, usually steady enough to count coins for the pawnbroker, trembled as he...

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