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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