5/25/2023 0 Comments Ghost Dance by Kathryn Ptacek![]() ![]() These cultures depicted felt lived and authentic Ptacek's mini-bios of each writer reveal this to be the case. Douglas has its white protagonist meet a fate reserved for those who use Navajo culture for their own monetary gain. The title means "Dance of the Initiates," the narrator visits a medium, a ritual voodoo dance and trance is involved, and a new power embraced, with chilling implication. She is haunted by him: Over the next three days, I learned to stay calm, not to betray my horror and disbelief each time Jim's body washed up in the surf. In Karen Haber's "Samba Sentado" a humiliated wife flees to Rio after her husband takes up with another woman. Noting her distress, a local gives her a "baku," a tiny ivory figurine that "eats bad dreams" when you place it beneath your pillow at night. In a tiny cold seaside Japanese farm community, living with her husband who's working in Tokyo, Sarah drinks and frets over losing him. ![]() Her first published story, "The Baku" from Lucy Taylor (above) benefits from its exotic locale and mythology. ![]() A handful of stories venture far from familiar shores. ![]()
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