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    Liturgy of Ice: A Variation: Variations, #2
    Liturgy of Ice: A Variation: Variations, #2
    Liturgy of Ice: A Variation: Variations, #2
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    Liturgy of Ice: A Variation: Variations, #2

    By Craig Laurance Gidney

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    Kyle hates living in the frozen northern city. He's lonely, under-employed and a person of color in a mostly white city. A chance meeting with a member of the mysterious Frost Collective opens him to new possibilities.

    The second in Gidney's Variations series riffs on Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, with chillingly sensuality.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCraig Laurance Gidney
    Release dateJun 19, 2014
    ISBN9781498960489
    Liturgy of Ice: A Variation: Variations, #2

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      Liturgy of Ice - Craig Laurance Gidney

      Contents

      Title Page

      LITURGY OF ICE: A VARIATION

      BY CRAIG LAURANCE GIDNEY

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      © 2014 Craig Laurance Gidney

      A Strange Alphabets Publication

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Cover art designed and composited by Tom Drymon, drymondesign

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      1.

      Kyle saw the strange flyer on his way to work one day. It was pasted on the side of a telephone pole. The poster had a picture of ice crystals magnified to the point where they became furry fractals, and over this almost illegible typography formed the name of the group, 'The Frost Collective,' and below that were a date and an address. It was an arresting image, but what did it mean? Was it an art collective? An underground band? A political movement? The poster gave no clues as to the purpose.

      The phrase and image stayed with him throughout the day. His job at the shop was boring, since no-one came in. Ambergris was a high-end perfume shop located on a side street with very little foot traffic. In addition to selling very expensive fragrances, the store also created custom perfumes for its clients, a vapid trend that had died when the Great Recession hit the country.  Kyle could spend a week without seeing a single customer, and there were only so many times he could dust the ornate glass bottles. How Ambergris stayed in business was beyond him. The owner, the heiress to a honey company, would only pop in once a month before flitting off to another city or country.

      Kyle had come to the northern city for college, after winning a minority science scholarship. After college, there had been an unpaid but prestigious internship at a pharmaceutical company. When funding for a position at the company fell through, he was forced to take a job outside his field. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical company promised a position for him--soon, soon. Three years

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