The Pale Path

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The Pale Path

The iron shears bite into the stem, and the black water soaks into your palm. You are twelve. You are alone in the cellar. The tincture is ready. You want to save her. Your mother’s cough has hollowed out the house, a dry rattle that sounds like gravel in a tin cup. For three years, since the funeral, the ivy has grown. It grows only on the walls of the guilty, or so the old stories say. It...

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