The Pale Fracture

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The Pale Fracture

Setsuko Kobayashi was twenty-four years old and the only woman on the night shift at the Municipal Water Filtration Plant, a fact that meant her hands were always cold, no matter how tight she wound the wool around her neck. The plant sat on a Seto Inland Sea island where the haze was so thick the far shore was merely a rumor, a gray smear that vanished when the wind shifted. I worked to pay...

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