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    The Passage of Falyn Sweeney: a short story
    The Passage of Falyn Sweeney: a short story
    The Passage of Falyn Sweeney: a short story
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    The Passage of Falyn Sweeney: a short story

    By Daniel Coleman

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    A girl traveling alone to a new world carrying the secrets of generations...

    A powerful man in steerage with other ideas for a lone traveler...

    A pair of Spaniards who appear just when the girl’s secrets are splayed out...

    An unknown entity, chronicling everything onboard, including thoughts...

    The Passage of Falyn Sweeney is the first short story in the Falyn Sweeney Saga by award-winning author Daniel Coleman.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaniel Coleman
    Release dateNov 27, 2017
    ISBN9781370512324
    The Passage of Falyn Sweeney: a short story

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      The Passage of Falyn Sweeney - Daniel Coleman

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      THE PASSAGE OF FALYN SWEENEY

      Historian File # wx43ns5- 3

      Primary Subject: Falyn Sweeney

      Chronicle Duration: Saga

      The girl known as Falyn Sweeney leaned on the rail of the SS New York, feeling as alone as the last autumn leaf. She vomited, again. Over the last five days she’d done so more times than she cared to count.

      A thousand humans and two of our people were compartmentalized in the steamship below her, sorted and bundled according to prosperity. Our people monitored everything on the ship, but the girl was their reason for being aboard in the first place. By now we knew who she was and where she came from. A past so abundant practically guaranteed a future even richer.

      A handful of crewmen, fixtures of the ship, shared the deck of the New York, which spread out as wide as a city. To a man, they silently cursed the sideways rain and their sea gear that did little to keep the deluge out of their clothing.

      Rain pelted the back of Falyn’s head while sea spray stung her eyes and throat. The contents of her stomach had long since dissipated into the dark waters, but her insides still wrenched and twisted to the unpredictable sway.

      We Historians know differently, but in the eyes of public opinion the girl represented every immigrant: grabbing and glutting. Giving nothing.

      In three thousand years of collecting history from as many worlds, we haven’t found an individual yet who

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