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Sam Joyce

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The Last Rites - or, How Father Goodman Became The Most Hated Man in America

Submitted to Contest #189

The SS Fullbody, as a rule, operated on a skeleton crew. No shortage of able-bodied men would leap at the chance to earn their daily bread in those days. And yet, there were only ten crewmen aboard, not counting the captain – who didn't count for much – on a vessel that called for thirty. The captain was a man of fierce black hair and even fiercer temperament, and, as his crew knew well and his passengers always came to know, he was never found without a bottle close at hand. The Fullbody was a small cargo liner. The best-known secret ...

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