The Pale Bridge

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The Pale Bridge

The mortar under your fingernails crumbles into a dry, grey powder, a texture that feels less like stone and more like the ash of burnt paper, and you watch it slip through your fingers to the river below, wondering if the span will hold the weight of the summer festival or if it will simply dissolve into the current. You are Elias, thirty-two, a bridge inspector whose duty is to certify the...

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