The Pale Garden

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The Pale Garden

Grief in the industrial north was a bureaucratic error, a line item to be corrected by the state. Armas Heikkinen, twelve years old and trembling in the rotting kitchen of the estate, understood this only when Mr. Vainio, the municipal caretaker, stepped over the body of his mother Elina and looked at the boy with the flat, assessing stare of a man appraising a damaged fence. The air in the...

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