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An excerpt from In the Spirit
Now I only noticed the dust.
Why the hell did I think coming here would be a good idea? I could have just stayed home and drugged myself into mental oblivion with pain medication and the midday soaps.
Except I had already done that for the last eight months, ever since the tiny, hard pebble in my right breast turned out to be a monster I never even dreamt of back when I could still see the golden light and make the dust dance.
Besides, home meant waiting for calls that had been well-rehearsed beforehand to cheer me up, with pity so thick it would sound like static on the line. Or worse yet, it meant waiting for the calls that never came from those who thought that by acknowledging me the cancer would somehow seek them out.
Either way it meant waiting for someone to remember I was, at least for the present, still alive. And I was tired of it.
Just as I was tired of people who still had the luxury of having time to wait.
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 P. D. Cacek
The winner of both a Bram Stoker Award (“Metalica,” Hotter Blood: Fear the Fever) and a World Fantasy Award (“Dust Motes,” Gothic Ghosts), P.D. Cacek’s short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines, e-zines, and anthologies, including David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible, Peter S. Beagle’s The Immortal Unicorn, Return to the Twilight Zone, Whitley Strieber’s Aliens, 999 and Redshift. Primarily a writer of what she calls “twisted reality,” she has penned a collection of short stories, Leavings (StarsEnd Creations), two humorous vampire novels, Night Prayers, and its sequel, Night Players (both from The Design Image Group), and a modern werewolf novel from Tor entitled Canyons. Having recently finished a novel set in the southwest and dealing with ancient Kachina spirits entitled The Wind Caller, Cacek is currently working on a second novel set in New Hope, PA, Reflections Through Beveled Glass. The story “Shingas’ Tale” is from the novel New Hope, the first book in what Cacek is calling her “New Hope Quartet.”
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Shipping and Returns 
