Oh, dammit. I mixed up Gardner Dozois's "A Kingdom By the Sea" with his "The Chains of the Sea," which was nominated in 1974. Okay, "Kingdom" is about a guy who works at a slaughterhouse, who comes to believe that a woman is communicating with him telepathically in his sleep. Wherever you think this premise is going, that's not where it's going. The first time I read it I didn't know what to make of it, but it certainly stuck in my mind. Now I do like it, but if I read it again I might see it completely differently.