The Wages of Salt

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
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Author: Deborah Kalin ISBN: 9781310506895
Publisher: Deborah Kalin Publication: April 16, 2015
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Deborah Kalin
ISBN: 9781310506895
Publisher: Deborah Kalin
Publication: April 16, 2015
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

FIRST PUBLISHED IN POSTSCRIPTS MAGAZINE #17:

"Stories of children lost to the theriomorphs were like the ammonite fossils: everyone had their own."

Alessia Kinshin is an archaeological anthropologist at the University of New Persia, a city surrounded by salt pans and beset by theriomorphs. Half-human and half-monster, the theriomorphs prey upon the citizens and appear tied to the salt, but the exact nature of the link is not known.

Determined to learn the truth for her doctoral thesis, Alessia dares to dig at a pan still inhabited by the creatures. She makes a startling discovery: the body of a human boy, buried in the salt.

The find confirms many suspicions of the theriomorphs' nature. Layer by layer, however, it also reveals just as much about the inhabitants of New Persia.

And when the boy wakes up, Alessia must choose between conflicting values of the truth.

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FIRST PUBLISHED IN POSTSCRIPTS MAGAZINE #17:

"Stories of children lost to the theriomorphs were like the ammonite fossils: everyone had their own."

Alessia Kinshin is an archaeological anthropologist at the University of New Persia, a city surrounded by salt pans and beset by theriomorphs. Half-human and half-monster, the theriomorphs prey upon the citizens and appear tied to the salt, but the exact nature of the link is not known.

Determined to learn the truth for her doctoral thesis, Alessia dares to dig at a pan still inhabited by the creatures. She makes a startling discovery: the body of a human boy, buried in the salt.

The find confirms many suspicions of the theriomorphs' nature. Layer by layer, however, it also reveals just as much about the inhabitants of New Persia.

And when the boy wakes up, Alessia must choose between conflicting values of the truth.

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