Dermot Lane

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“All I Have To Offer Is My Truth” by Dermot Lane

🏆 Winner of Contest #289

The room is unfamiliar. I don't know how I got here. But I know it to be a prison cell, cold and dank.I remember that the Praesidium of Magistrates say I am to die. They say I killed a man, that I am a murderer. Maybe these things are true, but they are only part of the truth.They say that Headsman Taliesan has been summoned from the Royal Palace, that he is to arrive on Fairday. That noon on Fairday is to be the hour of my death.They say Pastor Yakob shall tend to my spiritual needs, so that I may repent and save my immortal soul. Yet, I ha...

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