The Prince of Salt and the Ocean's Bargain is another fairy tale nominated for a Nebula. The setup for this one is that the ocean's salt becomes personified (through desire--wanting) and makes a bargain with the ocean to be embodied. Only a little of Salt is embodied, most is still dissolved in the sea. The embodied Salt is a new person, with new person wonder in an adult body, and he is discovered by a woman. The story is there life together, and then morphs into something else as the perspective of the story changes. So it's pretty good, if you like fairy tales. Good to know they can still be written, and don't have to be rewrites.
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