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Nothing but Meat [MultiFormat]
eBook by Jim C. Hines
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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: Ebony has spent most of her college years searching for meaning. As this gritty tale begins, Ebony's quest leads her to a fledgling movement spreading throughout the world. By violating one of the oldest taboos known to man, these people share a closeness and honesty Ebony has never known. But does Cannibalism truly hold the answers she needs?
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Brutarian Quarterly, 2005
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2005
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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [268 KB], eReader (PDB) [38 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [17 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [16 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [118 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [88 KB], hiebook (KML) [127 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [80 KB], iSilo (PDB) [14 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [18 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [83 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [27 KB]
Words: 4992
Reading time: 14-19 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
'Nothing But Meat' is a valiant piece of writing. Taboo. Taboo. Taboo. I have a confession to make (n-no -- I am not a cannibal). But after 'Blade of the Bunny', this book was to me a risk. It caught my eye chiefly because the protagonist is an Ebony; a name I have used in a character before (cheap way to get read, Jim). Writing is a gamble. And so is reading. The consumption of human flesh, knowing that they 'lived, dreamed, hoped and loved, just like you' carries an even bigger stake. Well written, the story echoes in memory like an impressionable flick -- until the end. 'Everyone is alone, nothing but meat... Meat is meat.' Or is it? The finale makes one feel it is part of an unravelled tale. Is it? A story for those who dare. -Eugen Bacon, Fictionwise Recommender
Ebony's first taste of human flesh came in the form of a dripping Sloppy Joe on a paper plate. A yellow single-serving bag of Baked Lays leaned against the wheat bun. She had brought her own drink, a twenty-four ounce bottle of water from the Student Union. She scooped a bit of the cloned meat onto a plastic spoon and touched it to her tongue.
It was overspiced: too much garlic and salt. Curt wasn't as good a chef as he had claimed.
"Take your time," said Curt. He scooped more meat from the crock pot for the last of the eight people who sat around the crowded apartment. "Savor the experience." He smiled at Ebony and explained, "The consumption of another human being is sacred. Whoever this was, they lived, dreamed, hoped, and loved, just like you."
The room was silent as Ebony and the others chewed and swallowed. Eventually Martin, a squat boy with a slight Texan drawl, picked up the discarded blue and yellow can and read the label pasted onto the back. "Check it out. 'John Doe' was some kind of surfer. Says here he won second place at a big competition in Hawaii, back in 'seventy-five."
Ebony struggled to reconcile the greasy meat on the plate with an imagined surfer, his tan, strong body perfectly balanced as he rode the ocean.
"It's okay if it feels strange," Curt said. "You're shattering taboos our culture has clung to since the beginning of time."
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