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    Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?
    Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?
    Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?
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    Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?

    By John Grant

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    When he arrives in Edinburgh, he sees his future as an infinitely bleak expanse. But then he meets Kristie . . . Award-winning author John Grant has created not just a tender, erotic tale about the conquest of grief and a fantasy of the highest order, but also a marvelously evocative Edinburgh story.

    WARNING: Contains explicit sex.

    'I thought the best novelette [of The Third Alternative's year] was John Grant's "Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?" (Summer), a lovely erotically-charged piece about a man mourning his wife.'
    --Rich Horton, Speculative Literature Foundation

    '"Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?" by John Grant really touched me.'
    --Donna Jones, SF Crowsnest

    '... like a Ray Bradbury story for mature audiences only.'
    --Matthew Cheney, SF Site

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherinfinity plus
    Release dateOct 15, 2011
    ISBN9781466015326
    Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?
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    John Grant

    John Grant is author of about seventy books, including the highly successful Discarded Science, Corrupted Science, and Denying Science. He has received two Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a number of other international literary awards.

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      Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie? - John Grant

      Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?

      John Grant

      infinity plus singles #2

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      Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?

      As he came into Edinburgh he felt like a piece of bleached driftwood cast ashore at the edge of an ocean of night.

      He lifted his gaze from the book he hadn't been reading to watch the flares of the city streaming by outside the train window, ever slowing now, and caught sight of his own transparent reflection in the glass. His eyes, haunted by this glimpse of their ghostly otherselves, shifted instantly away, refocusing themselves on the neon and the headlamps, the boxy shinings of windows, the crouching orange glow of street lights. It seemed that Edinburgh was trying to welcome him into her arms and yet at the same time couldn't put it out of her mind that he was an alien here, some creature accidentally strayed in from a wrong world.

      This sensation of not belonging in wherever he was, like a theatrical prop inadvertently left in the middle of the stage after the scene had been changed, had become commonplace to him over the past eleven months, but he'd hoped Edinburgh at Festival time would be different. In a city full of strangers, surely there'd be a communion brought about by shared exile. That wasn't the sense, though, that the lights were giving him.

      As he hauled his solitary bag down from the rack, he tried yet again to reckon how long it had been since last he'd visited the city. It had been a family vacation during his childhood, but he couldn't remember exactly how old he'd been. With the insouciance of youth, he hadn't really registered Edinburgh as anything except just another of those cities through which his parents insisted on dragging him, occasionally letting him off the leash long enough that he could escape into the nearest Woolworths to buy the same cheap plastic crap he could have bought round the corner in London. He had dim memories of the Castle – boring – of Arthur's Seat – boring – of the Calton Hill Observatory – boring – and so on, but he could recall nothing of the feel of Edinburgh, of the unique set of characteristics every city has that sets it apart from

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