An anthology of Craig Strete's unique Native American themed short stories. Includes a Nebula Award nominee.

A haunting roller coaster ride through the light and the dark of the Native American psyche.

CONTENTS:

• Introduction by Salvador Dali
• Gods Who Could Not Stay
• A Wounded Knee Fairy Tale
• The Voice of a New Instrument
• Mother of Cloth, Heart of Clock
• A Sunday Visit with Great-grandfather
• Dancing the Dead Safe into Their Beads
• In the Belly of the Death Mother
• On the Way Home
• Every World with a String Attached
• So That Men Might Not See
• When Old Man Coyote Sang the World into Being
• Why Has the Virgin Mary Never Entered the Wigwam of Standing Bear?
• Another Horse of a Different Technicolor

Craig Kee Strete (born 1950) is a Cherokee Indian. Beginning in the early 1970's, while working in the Film and Television industry, he began writing emotional Native American themed, and science fiction short stories and novellas. Three of his science fiction stories, Time Deer (1974), The Bleeding Man (1975), and A Sunday Visit with Great-grandfather (1980), were Nebula Award nominees. His play Paint Your Face On A Drowning In The River (originally produced May 16, 1984 by East/West Players in Los Angeles, CA) was the 1984 Dramatists Guild/CBS New Plays Program first place winner.