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    A Taste Sweet & Salty
    A Taste Sweet & Salty
    A Taste Sweet & Salty
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    A Taste Sweet & Salty

    By Douglas Smith

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    The man known only as Stranger lived and died in a town with no name. Each day he lived. And each night he died…

     

    Fantasy, surreal (short story)

     

    "...absolutely masterful...a kind of much, much creepier Quantum Leap: the amnesiac protagonist awakes in a new body each morning only to die in it by nightfall." —Strange Horizons

     

    "Another superb story … unpredictable and with a great ending, this story is another highlight of the [Chimerascope] collection (A++)." —Fantasy Book Critic

    "...wonderful...has a taste that lingers..." —SF Crowsnest

     

    "A charming tale about a man cursed to die every day and be reborn as someone else." —SFRevu

     

    "A fascinating fabulist premise..." — Internet Review of SF

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpiral Path Books
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
    ISBN9780991800766
    A Taste Sweet & Salty
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    Douglas Smith

    Douglas Smith is an award-winning Canadian author described by Library Journal as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction." His fiction has been published in twenty-six languages and thirty-two countries. His work includes the urban fantasy novel, The Wolf at the End of the World, and the collections Chimerascope, Impossibilia, and La Danse des Esprits. His non-fiction guide for writers, Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction, is a must read for any short story writer. Doug is a three-time winner of Canada's Aurora Award, and has been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award, CBC's Bookies Award, Canada's juried Sunburst Award, and France's juried Prix Masterton and Prix Bob Morane. A short film based on Doug's story "By Her Hand, She Draws You Down" won several awards at film festivals around the world.

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      Book preview

      A Taste Sweet & Salty - Douglas Smith

      A Taste Sweet and Salty

      by Douglas Smith

      The man known only as Stranger lived and died in a town with no name. Each day he lived. And each night he died…

      ~~

      ...absolutely masterful...a kind of much, much creepier Quantum Leap: the amnesiac protagonist awakes in a new body each morning only to die in it by nightfall.

      —Strange Horizons

      Another superb story … unpredictable and with a great ending, this story is another highlight of the [Chimerascope] collection (A++).

      —Fantasy Book Critic

      ...wonderful...has a taste that lingers...

      —SF Crowsnest

      A charming tale about a man cursed to die every day and be reborn as someone else.

      —SFRevu

      A fascinating fabulist premise...

      —Internet Review of SF

      Table of Contents

      DESCRIPTION

      A TASTE SWEET AND SALTY

      ABOUT THE STORY

      A REQUEST

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ALSO BY DOUGLAS SMITH

      THE HOLLOW BOYS

      THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE WORLD

      CHIMERASCOPE

      COPYRIGHT

      A TASTE SWEET AND SALTY

      THE MAN KNOWN

      only as Stranger lived and died in a town with no name.

      Each day he lived.

      And each night he died.

      One morning, Stranger might wake on silk sheets in a fine villa in the town. Rising, he would walk out onto a broad stone patio and look down over cobbled streets twisting between the red-clay buildings below. Out on the Medicean, ship sails billowed like clouds on an inverted sky. Ships he owned. He was rich. He was powerful.

      The next morning, he might wake naked and shivering in a dark forest, his skin painted with dew etched by the tracks of insects that had explored him in the night. He had nothing. He was nothing.

      Yet another morning, he would find himself before the altar of the town’s only church.

      Or on a ship. Or in the governor’s palace.

      A ditch. A general’s tent. A brothel.

      Sometimes rich, sometimes poor. Sometimes male, sometimes female. Old, young. Strong, weak. Sometimes known to all, and other times as he ever was to himself—a stranger.

      But always, he awoke in the town that huddled under

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