The Pale Shadows

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The Pale Shadows

The dream is always the same: a valley of grey mist, the smell of wet iron, and my left hand reaching out to pull Thomas from the mud. But when I wake in the trench, the hand is not there. It has been gone for three years, severed at the wrist by a shrapnel burst that took half my forearm with it. The stump throbs with a cold that has no source, a phantom ache that feels more real than the...

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