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The Children & Champawat

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"The Children" and Champawat, a novella, were originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. In "The Children," a young nanny is put outside to die in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. When it decimates her Washington D.C. household, she pockets a few of her dying mistress's jewels. She hopes to go back west, sell them, and start a new life. But a U.S. Marshal boards her train in Chicago and begins to question her. She is terrified that he know she is a thief. But when he brings up the Alien and Sedition Acts, she fears it may be even Some of her friends have been arrested, rounded up as Reds. She manages to escape, but then encounters the marshal again during Seattle's general strike. With Anarchists setting off wave after wave of bombs, aliens are being routinely forced onto boats "home"—even if, like her, they left as babes in arms. She has no choice but to take drastic action. So when she spots the marshal a third time, at an event for top Democrats, she knows it can't possibly end well.

Language: English

Pages: 138

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: October 11, 2012

The Children & Champawat

0/5 ( ratings)

"The Children" and Champawat, a novella, were originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. In "The Children," a young nanny is put outside to die in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. When it decimates her Washington D.C. household, she pockets a few of her dying mistress's jewels. She hopes to go back west, sell them, and start a new life. But a U.S. Marshal boards her train in Chicago and begins to question her. She is terrified that he know she is a thief. But when he brings up the Alien and Sedition Acts, she fears it may be even Some of her friends have been arrested, rounded up as Reds. She manages to escape, but then encounters the marshal again during Seattle's general strike. With Anarchists setting off wave after wave of bombs, aliens are being routinely forced onto boats "home"—even if, like her, they left as babes in arms. She has no choice but to take drastic action. So when she spots the marshal a third time, at an event for top Democrats, she knows it can't possibly end well.

Language: English

Pages: 138

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: October 11, 2012

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