The Pale Mist

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The Pale Mist

Act I Carmela Gentile stood in the mud of the rice paddies, her boots sunk to the ankle in the cold slush. It was the spring of late frosts, the kind that kills the buds before they open, and the air tasted of iron and rot. She was thirty-two, an airplane riveter by trade, though the war was over and the factories were quiet now. Her hands were raw, the skin split and bleeding where the cold...

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