The Pale Echo

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The Pale Echo

My hands were already in the ink, black to the wrist, as I wiped the press bed. The smell of linseed oil and wet paper hung in the air, thick and cloying, pressing against the back of my throat. I was Declan Sheehy, and I was thirty-two years old, though the mirror in the workshop had long stopped showing me a man who could still look someone in the eye. The quarterly audit was three days away,...

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