The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

What does it cost to keep a wall standing? I asked the stone, and the stone did not answer, but the chisel in my hand trembled with a weight that was not mine. I am Dariush Kian, and for forty years I have been the last sexton of this place, a man who knows the texture of linoleum and the specific, heavy quiet of snow falling on the Central Asian steppe. My pension was frozen mid-career, a...

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