The Pale Dance

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The Pale Dance

The chisel bit into the spruce, and Petr Nemec felt the splinter tear away with a sound like a dry leaf snapping. He was thirty-two, the coffin maker of the parish, and his hands, which had once moved with the precision of a surgeon, now trembled with a weakness that no amount of rest could cure. The wood was pale, almost white, and as he worked, the grain seemed to shift, forming the shape of...

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